Call for Paper Proposals
The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image announces its call for proposals for the 2012 SCSMI Conference, June 13-16, 2012, at Sarah Lawrence College (June 13-15) and New York University (June 16) in New York. The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image is an interdisciplinary organization made up of scholars interested in cognitive, philosophical, aesthetic, neuro-physiological, and evolutionarypsychological approaches to the analysis of film and other moving-image media.
Members of SCSMI seek to understand, among other things, the ways in which perceptual, psychological and neural processes relate to spectators’ affective responses, to their comprehension of narratives and other film forms, and to the saliency and effects of particular stylistic features of films. Members also raise questions about how artistic strategies, such as narrative construction, audio-visual technique, and the creation of emotional responses, may be amenable to naturalistic explanations in a cognitive framework.… read more. “Call: Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI 2012)”