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<blockquote data-quote="The Feedster" data-source="post: 524101" data-attributes="member: 259515"><p><img src="http://mos.techradar.com//classifications/publications/images/goodbadugly-200-200.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />A recent study by New York Universityneuroscientists has found that watching certain films affects brain activitymore than others. </p><p></p><p>The study has been such a success that the film industry mayuse the findings when making its own movies.</p><p></p><p>Published in ‘Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind’ –no, we haven’t heard of it either – the researchers wrote: "In cinema,some films lead most viewers through a similar sequence of perceptual, emotional,and cognitive states. </p><p></p><p>"Such a tight grip on viewers' minds will be reflectedin the similarity of the brain activity across most viewers. </p><p></p><p>"By contrast, other films exert – either intentionally orunintentionally – less control over viewers' responses during movie watching.In such cases we expect that there will be less control over viewers' brainactivity."</p><p></p><p><strong>The films profiled</strong></p><p></p><p>So, which films made people’s brains hurt and which madethem brain dead? The researchers used three motion picture clips: a half-hour segment of Sergio Leone's T<em>he Good, The Bad And The Ugly</em>; an episode of <em>AlfredHitchcock Presents Bang! You're Dead</em>; and an episode of Larry David's <em>Curb YourEnthusiasm</em>.</p><p></p><p>Hitchcock’s effort proved the most worthy when livening 65per cent of the brain’s neocortex, while Larry David proved to be the worstbrain-livener, as it mustered up just 18 per cent neocortex activity. *</p><p></p><p>Those who watched a clip of McG’s <em>Charlie’s Angels</em> were officiallydeclared braindead. Actually, we just made that last bit up, but if it was in the study we're sure that would have been the result.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/watching-movies-affects-the-brain-391508" target="_blank">More...</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Feedster, post: 524101, member: 259515"] [IMG]http://mos.techradar.com//classifications/publications/images/goodbadugly-200-200.jpg[/IMG]A recent study by New York Universityneuroscientists has found that watching certain films affects brain activitymore than others. The study has been such a success that the film industry mayuse the findings when making its own movies. Published in ‘Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind’ –no, we haven’t heard of it either – the researchers wrote: "In cinema,some films lead most viewers through a similar sequence of perceptual, emotional,and cognitive states. "Such a tight grip on viewers' minds will be reflectedin the similarity of the brain activity across most viewers. "By contrast, other films exert – either intentionally orunintentionally – less control over viewers' responses during movie watching.In such cases we expect that there will be less control over viewers' brainactivity." [B]The films profiled[/B] So, which films made people’s brains hurt and which madethem brain dead? The researchers used three motion picture clips: a half-hour segment of Sergio Leone's T[I]he Good, The Bad And The Ugly[/I]; an episode of [I]AlfredHitchcock Presents Bang! You're Dead[/I]; and an episode of Larry David's [I]Curb YourEnthusiasm[/I]. Hitchcock’s effort proved the most worthy when livening 65per cent of the brain’s neocortex, while Larry David proved to be the worstbrain-livener, as it mustered up just 18 per cent neocortex activity. * Those who watched a clip of McG’s [I]Charlie’s Angels[/I] were officiallydeclared braindead. Actually, we just made that last bit up, but if it was in the study we're sure that would have been the result. [url=http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/watching-movies-affects-the-brain-391508]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]
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