Why do people go to the movies? What does it mean to watch a movie? To what extent is the
perceived fictional nature of movies different from our daily perception of the real world? We …

Performance/Art explores the phenomenology of skilled performance, ranging from athletics
to the performing arts, including music, dance and acting. Gallagher reviews a variety of …

What does it mean for an actor to empathize with the character she is playing? We review
different theories of empathy and of acting. We then consider the notion of “twofoldness” …

Only recently, the broad research program of embodied cognition has fuelled a substantial
and ongoing body of research at the crossroads of cognitive science and film studies. Two …

Experts apply their experience to the proper development of their routine activities. Their
acquired expertise or professionalization is expected to help in the development of those …

One key feature of film consists in its power to bodily engage the viewer. Previous research
has suggested lens and camera movements to be among the most effective stylistic devices …

This paper argues that the still-emerging paradigm of situated cognition requires a more
systematic perspective on media to capture the enculturation of the human mind. By virtue of …

Audiovisual cuts involve spatial, temporal, and action narrative leaps. They can even
change the meaning of the narrative through film editing. Many cuts are not consciously …

This paper presents a cognitive psychology experiment to explore the differences between
2D and virtual reality (VR) film editing techniques. We recruited sixteen volunteers to view a …

[A] esthetics is not merely a matter of constructing theories of something called aesthetic
experience, but instead extends broadly to encompass all the processes by which we enact …