The Cognitive Neuroscience of Film

3 units

To understand complex events in real life depends on perception, action, and memory. To understand movies, people probably depend on similar psychological and neural mechanisms. This seminar will use results from psychology and neuroscience to try to better understand the experience of a movie viewer, and will use theory and practice to explore psychological hypotheses about perception. PREREQ: Psych 360, or 3604, or 4604, or Graduate standing in Psychology.