TY - JOUR
T1 - Enacting Moving Images Film Theory and Experimental Science Within a New Cognitive Media Theory
AU - Fingerhut, Joerg
AU - Heimann, Katrin
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This article highlights ways to relate psychology, neuroscience, and film theory that are underrepresented in the current debate and that could contribute to a new cognitive media theory. First, we outline how neuroscientific approaches to moving images could be embedded in the embodied, enactive cognition framework and recent predictive processing theories of the brain. Within this framework, we understand filmic engagement as a specific way of worldmaking, which is co-constituted by formal elements such as framing, camerawork, and editing. Second, we address experimental progress. Here we weigh the promises and perils of neuroscientific studies by discussing the motor neuron account to camera movements as an example. Based on the limitations we identify, we advocate for a multi-method study of fi lm experience that brings cognitive science into dialogue with philosophical accounts and qualitative in-depth explorations of subjective experience.
AB - This article highlights ways to relate psychology, neuroscience, and film theory that are underrepresented in the current debate and that could contribute to a new cognitive media theory. First, we outline how neuroscientific approaches to moving images could be embedded in the embodied, enactive cognition framework and recent predictive processing theories of the brain. Within this framework, we understand filmic engagement as a specific way of worldmaking, which is co-constituted by formal elements such as framing, camerawork, and editing. Second, we address experimental progress. Here we weigh the promises and perils of neuroscientific studies by discussing the motor neuron account to camera movements as an example. Based on the limitations we identify, we advocate for a multi-method study of fi lm experience that brings cognitive science into dialogue with philosophical accounts and qualitative in-depth explorations of subjective experience.
KW - 4E cognition
KW - editing
KW - enactivism
KW - expansive habits
KW - micro-phenomenology
KW - neuromediality
KW - new cognitive media theory
KW - predictive processing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85129940164&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3167/proj.2022.160107
DO - 10.3167/proj.2022.160107
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1934-9688
VL - 16
SP - 105
EP - 123
JO - Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind
JF - Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind
IS - 1
M1 - 19
ER -