Segmentation in cinema perception

J. M. Carroll; T. G. Bever

doi:10.1126/science.1251216

Segmentation in cinema perception

J. M. Carroll, T. G. Bever

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Viewers perceptually segment moving picture sequences into their cinematically defined units: excerpts that follow short film sequences are recognized faster when the excerpt originally came after a structural cinematic break (a cut or change in the action) than when it originally came before the break.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1053-1055
Number of pages	3
Journal	Science
Volume	191
Issue number	4231
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1251216
State	Published - 1976

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