Recent developments in neuroimaging research support the increased use of naturalistic
stimulus material such as film, avatars, or androids. These stimuli allow for a better …

Every day, the world of media is at our fingertips, whether it is watching movies, listening to
the radio, or browsing online media. On average, people spend over 8 h per day consuming …

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Narratives may be regarded as simulations of everyday social situations. They are key to
studying the human mind in socio-culturally determined contexts as they allow anchoring to …

Virtual reality (VR) promises methodological rigour with the extra benefit of allowing us to
study the context‐dependent behaviour of individuals in their natural environment. Pan and …

The neurocinematic inquiry is extended in this article to the sparsely studied topic of the
filmmaker (author) as an embodied agent. Departing from my concept of second-order …

Tracking of eye movements is an established measurement for many types of experimental
paradigms. More complex and more prolonged visual stimuli have made algorithmic …

Interactive Narrative is a form of digital entertainment heavily based on AI techniques to
support narrative generation and user interaction, significant progress arriving with the …

Cyberpsychology is a relatively new discipline that is growing at an alarming rate. While a
number of cyberpsychology-related journals and books have emerged, none directly …

Preface: Registers toward the end of winter in 2012 I broke my foot. This was a stress
fracture, the cumulative effect of cyclic loading stress over a long season of running uphill on …