Segmentation in Cinema Perception
- 12 March 1976
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 191 (4231), 1053-1055
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1251216
Abstract
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.Keywords
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