Neurocinema or neurocinematics is the science of how watching movies, or particular scenes from movies affect human brains, and the response the human brain gives to any given movie or scene. The term neurocinema comes from neurologists who are studying which pieces of a film can have the most control over a viewer's brain. These studies are conducted with viewers who are screened movies while being monitored in fMRI machines that map the brain's activity. Studies have shown that certain scenes in certain films stimulate different part of the brain in different ways. Gaining this knowledge is
Neurocinema or neurocinematics is the science of how watching movies, or particular scenes from movies affect human brains, and the response the human brain gives to any given movie or scene. The term neurocinema comes from neurologists who are studying which pieces of a film can have the most control over a viewer's brain. These studies are conducted with viewers who are screened movies while being monitored in fMRI machines that map the brain's activity. Studies have shown that certain scenes in certain films stimulate different part of the brain in different ways. Gaining this knowledge is not only beneficial on a neuroscience level, but for filmmakers as well.
==History== Although these studies began in the 2000s, this idea has been around since the early years of film. This is demonstrated with Sergei Eisenstein's experiments with montage theory and Lev Kuleshov's famous “Kuleshov Effect”. These Russian filmmakers studied American filmmakers such as D.W. Griffith and discovered that film was a “malleable” art. The Kuleshov Effect proved that the juxtaposition of a series of images together can create ideas and emotions in an audience's mind. This revolutionized propaganda in the Soviet Union to spread the influence and collective strength of a new revolutionary Marxist state after the revolution of 1917.
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