Eyeblink rate watching classical Hollywood and post-classical MTV editing styles, in media and non-media professionals.

ABSTRACT: While movie edition creates a discontinuity in audio-visual works for narrative and economy-of-storytelling reasons, eyeblink creates a discontinuity in visual perception for protective and cognitive reasons. We were interested in analyzing eyeblink rate linked to cinematographic edition styles. We created three video stimuli with different editing styles and analyzed spontaneous blink rate in participants (N = 40). We were also interested in looking for different perceptive patterns in blink rate related to media professionalization. For that, of our participants, half (n = 20) were media professionals, and the other half were not. According to our results, MTV editing style inhibits eyeblinks more than Hollywood style and one-shot style. More interestingly, we obtained differences in vis

SUBMITTER: Andreu-Sanchez C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5318946 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature