The brain’s cutting-room floor: segmentation of narrative cinema
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2010-10-01Author
Zacks, Jeffrey M.
Speer, Nicole K.
Swallow, Khena M.
Maley, Corey John
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Frontiers Media
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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2010.00168/fullRights
© 2010 Zacks, Speer, Swallow and Maley. This is an open-access article subject to an exclusive license agreement between the authors and the Frontiers Research Foundation, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.
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Observers segment ongoing activity into meaningful events. Segmentation is a core component of perception that helps determine memory and guide planning. The current study tested the hypotheses that event segmentation is an automatic component of the perception of extended naturalistic activity, and that the identification of event boundaries in such activities results in part from processing changes in the perceived situation. Observers may identify boundaries between events as a result of processing changes in the observed situation. To test this hypothesis and study this potential mechanism, we measured brain activity while participants viewed an extended narrative film. Large transient responses were observed when the activity was segmented, and these responses were mediated by changes in the observed activity, including characters and their interactions, interactions with objects, spatial location, goals, and causes. These results support accounts that propose event segmentation is automatic and depends on processing meaningful changes in the perceived situation; they are the first to show such effects for extended naturalistic human activity.
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Zacks, Jeffrey M., Nicole K. Speer, Khena M. Swallow, and Corey J. Maley. "The Brain’s Cutting-room Floor: Segmentation of Narrative Cinema." Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Front. Hum. Neurosci. 4 (2010): n. pag.
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