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This article illustrates the first steps of a research project concerning the “Subjective Experience and Estimation of Moving-Image Time” (SEEM_IT). After introducing the theoretical background of the research, that links time perception to the embodied experience of movement, the article presents the main empirical results of an experiment aimed at assessing how spectators’ time perception is affected by the style of editing and the type of represented action in short video clips. Though the style of editing played a major role in influencing SEEM_IT, it also significantly interacted with the type of represented action. The article reassesses these findings by discussing them within the theoretical framework of the research.
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The research presented in this report took place within a PRIN (Research Project of National Interest) titled Perception, Performativity and Cognitive Sciences and funded by the Italian Government (2015, Grant number: 2015TM24JS - SH4; P.I. Antonio Pennisi, Università degli studi di Messina). The unit working team included Ruggero Eugeni (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, coordinator), Riccardo Manzotti (IULM – International University of Languages and Media, Milan), Adriano D’Aloia (Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”), Federica Cavaletti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), and Massimo Locatelli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore). We conducted the experiment in collaboration with Maria Rita Ciceri’s team, composed by Stefania Balzarotti and Elisa Cardani (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan). We thank Pia Tikka, Tim Smith, Patricia Pisters, Vinzenz Hediger, Maria Poulaki, Julian Hanich, Joerg Fingerhut, Francesco Sticchi, Alessandro Antonietti, Vittorio Gallese, Pietro Montani, Ninni Pennisi, and all the colleagues of the PRIN project for their useful suggestions. A special thanks to Ed Tan and Katrin Heimann for their careful reading of the paper and their comments and encouragements.
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Eugeni, R., Balzarotti, S., Cavaletti, F., D’Aloia, A. (2020). It Doesn’t Seem_It, But It Is. A Neurofilmological Approach to the Subjective Experience of Moving-Image Time. In: Pennisi, A., Falzone, A. (eds) The Extended Theory of Cognitive Creativity. Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22090-7_16
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