JMC wrote:
Audiences can always close their eyes and make penetrating objects disappear
or
learn to remove their focus from the screen, but with sound, making the
threat
disappear becomes more difficult.
and Henry Bacon wrote:
As any psychologits and magician can tell you, our perceptul reflexes
are easily
fooled against our better knowledge.
A new study out of USC (or was it UCLA?) did perceptual studies on a series
of volunteers.
A round circle is flashed once onto a screen--the viewers report seeing one
flash.
A round circle is flashed twice onto a screen--the viewers report seeing two
flashes.
A round circle is flashed once onto a screen accompanied by a single, short
tone on the 'sound track'--the viewers report seeing one flash.
A round circle is flashed ONCE onto a screen accompanied by a TWO short
tones on the 'sound track'--the viewers report seeing TWO flashes.
When the experiment was repeated with three short tones, some viewers
reported seeing two flashes, while others saw three.
The conclusions were that our senses do not operate in isolation, but inform
and influence each other(sometimes in contradiction to the facts)--and
therefore influence our beliefs surrounding the event. Interesting
phenomenon.
Also, in analyzing audience reactions to representations of events on
screen, no matter what their beliefs re: reality vs. simulcra, the screen
event itself is a bone fide event which impacts on the their senses through
the phemomena, and their psychology through the narrative. It creates
reactions and beliefs of its own accord. Yes, no?
James Wallace
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