Film Music from the Perspective of Cognitive Science

2013 ◽  
pp. 95-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annabel J. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Film Music ◽  
Background Music ◽  
Cognitive Perspective

This chapterexamines how the effects of film music on meaning, memory, and the construction of a reality within a film can be addressed or understood from a cognitive scientific perspective. It reviews studies that aim to explain why music is important to film as well as how music functions in film, and it discusses the principles of cognitive science and cognitive perspective. It also considers the Congruence-Associationist Model for understanding filmmusic, which was developed to account for the fact that the attitudes toward three geometric film characters were affected differently by background music.

scholarly journals Exploring Students’ Descriptions of Mutation from a Cognitive Perspective Suggests How to Modify Instructional Approaches

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. ar45
Author(s):  
FangFang Zhao ◽  
Anita Schuchardt
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Bacterial Population ◽  
Instructional Approaches ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Relevant Concept ◽  
Scientific Phenomena ◽  
Written Explanations

Prior studies have shown that students have difficulty understanding the role of mutation in evolution and genetics. However, little is known about unifying themes underlying students’ difficulty with mutation. In this study, we examined students’ written explanations about mutation from a cognitive science perspective. According to one cognitive perspective, scientific phenomena can be perceived as entities or processes, and the miscategorization of processes as entities can lead to noncanonical ideas about scientific phenomena that are difficult to change. Students’ incorrect categorization of processes as entities is well documented in physics but has not been studied in biology. Unlike other scientific phenomena that have been studied, the word “mutation” refers to both the process causing a change in the DNA and the entity, the altered DNA, making mutation a relevant concept for exploration and extension of this theory. In this study, we show that, even after instruction on mutation, the majority of students provided entity-focused descriptions of mutation in response to a question that prompted for a process-focused description in a lizard or a bacterial population. Students’ noncanonical ideas about mutation occurred in both entity- and process-focused descriptions. Implications for conceptual understanding and instruction are discussed.

From Flow to Fuse

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (CHI PLAY) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Kyros Jalife ◽  
Casper Harteveld ◽  
Christoffer Holmgård
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Sensory Stimuli ◽  
Design Heuristics ◽  
Science Theory ◽  
Preliminary Model ◽  
Conceptual Clarity

The concept of flow is used extensively in HCI, video games, and many other fields, but its prevalent definition is conceptually vague and alternative interpretations have contributed to ambiguity in the literature. To address this, we use cognitive science theory to expose inconsistencies in flow's prevalent definition, and introduce fuse, a concept related to flow but consistent with cognitive science, and defined as the "fusion of activity-related sensory stimuli and awareness''. Based on this definition, we develop a preliminary model that hypothesizes fuse's underlying cognitive processes. To illustrate the model's practical value, we derive a set of design heuristics that we exemplify in the context of video games. Together, the fuse definition, model and design heuristics form our theoretical framework, and are a product of rethinking flow from a cognitive perspective with the purpose of improving conceptual clarity and theoretical robustness in the literature.

Stative dimensional verbs in German

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-334
Author(s):  
Thomas Gamerschlag
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
A Value ◽  
Specific Dimension ◽  
The Subject

Stative verbs such as German wiegen ‘weigh’ and heißen ‘be called’ encode an attribute of the subject referent such as WEIGHT or NAME and, in addition, allow for the specification of a value for this attribute. From a cognitive perspective, we refer to attributes of this type as object dimensions and to stative verbs encoding object dimensions as stative dimensional verbs. We argue in favor of the relevance of these verbs to cognitive science and semantics. After introducing basic types of stative dimensional verbs, we discuss the results of an in-depth investigation of these verbs in German. In addition to the kind of dimensions encoded by stative verbs, there will be a particular focus on contrasts in the distribution of dimension encoding verbs, nouns, and adjectives. Moreover, we will present a taxonomy of stative dimensional verbs in dependence of the specific dimension.

Policy Implementation and Cognition: Reframing and Refocusing Implementation Research

2002 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
James P Spillane ◽  
Brian J Reiser ◽  
Todd Reimer
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Implementation Research ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Cognitive Framework ◽  
Policy Challenge ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

Education policy faces a familiar public policy challenge: Local implementation is difficult. In this article we develop a cognitive framework to characterize sense-making in the implementation process that is especially relevant for recent education policy initiatives, such as standards-based reforms that press for tremendous changes in classroom instruction. From a cognitive perspective, a key dimension of the implementation process is whether, and in what ways, implementing agents come to understand their practice, potentially changing their beliefs and attitudes in the process. We draw on theoretical and empirical literature to develop a cognitive perspective on implementation. We review the contribution of cognitive science frames to implementation research and identify areas where cognitive science can make additional contributions.

scholarly journals Disseminated Computation, Cognitive Domestication of New Ignorant Substrates, and Overcomputationalization

Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Magnani
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Motor Tasks ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Morphological Computation ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The One ◽  
Recent Attention

Eco-cognitive computationalism considers computation in the context of following some of the main tenets advanced by the recent cognitive science views on embodied, situated and distributed cognition. It is in the framework of this eco-cognitive perspective that we can usefully analyze the recent attention in computer science devoted to the importance of the simplification of cognitive and motor tasks caused in organic entities by the morphological features: ignorant bodies can be domesticated to become useful “mimetic bodies”, that is to be able to render an intertwined computation simpler, resorting to that “simplexity” of animal embodied cognition, which represents one of the main qualities of organic agents. Through eco-cognitive computationalism we can clearly acknowledge that the concept of computation changes, depending on historical and contextual causes and we can build an epistemological view that illustrates the “emergence” of new kinds of computations, such as the one regarding morphological computation. This new perspective shows how the computational domestication of ignorant entities can originate new unconventional cognitive embodiments. I also introduce the concept of overcomputationalism, showing that my proposed framework helps us see the related concepts of pancognitivism, paniformationalism and pancomputationalism in a more naturalized and prudent perspective, avoiding the excess of old-fashioned ontological or metaphysical overstatements.

scholarly journals Meanings of music in film from a cognitive perspective

2019 ◽  
pp. 107-116
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Cieślak
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Film Music ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Association Model ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Short Overview ◽  
Approaches To Study ◽  
The Cross

Cognitive psychology, with its focus on mind and its processes, is one of the approaches to study film music. Although music alone is said to be already meaningful, it gains and transfers specific meanings in the film context. This article aims to contribute to understanding of what film music means and how these meanings are processed in the cross-modal perception of a film. A review of the selected empirical research on film music with regard to meaning is followed by a short overview of the Annabel J. Cohen’s Congruence-Association Model (CAM) of media cognition. The model provides a framework for the experiments’ results and encourages future interdisciplinary studies in this area.

scholarly journals Disseminated Computation, Cognitive Domestication of New Ignorant Substrates, and Overcomputationalization

Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Magnani
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Motor Tasks ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Morphological Computation ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The One ◽  
Recent Attention

Eco-cognitive computationalism considers computation in the context of following some of the main tenets advanced by the recent cognitive science views on embodied, situated and distributed cognition. It is in the framework of this eco-cognitive perspective that we can usefully analyze the recent attention in computer science devoted to the importance of the simplification of cognitive and motor tasks caused in organic entities by the morphological features: ignorant bodies can be domesticated to become useful “mimetic bodies”, that is to be able to render an intertwined computation simpler, resorting to that “simplexity” of animal embodied cognition, which represents one of the main qualities of organic agents. Through eco-cognitive computationalism we can clearly acknowledge that the concept of computation changes, depending on historical and contextual causes and we can build an epistemological view that illustrates the “emergence” of new kinds of computations, such as the one regarding morphological computation. This new perspective shows how the computational domestication of ignorant entities can originate new unconventional cognitive embodiments. I also introduce the concept of overcomputationalism, showing that my proposed framework helps us see the related concepts of pancognitivism, paniformationalism and pancomputationalism in a more naturalized and prudent perspective, avoiding the excess of old-fashioned ontological or metaphysical overstatements.

Toward a Theory of Entrepreneurial Cognition: Rethinking the People Side of Entrepreneurship Research

2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald K. Mitchell ◽  
Lowell Busenitz ◽  
Theresa Lant ◽  
Patricia P. McDougall ◽  
Eric A. Morse ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Entrepreneurial Process ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
The People ◽  
Entrepreneurial Cognition ◽  
Research Stream

The failure of past “entrepreneurial personality”—based research to clearly distinguish the unique contributions to the entrepreneurial process of entrepreneurs as people, has created a vacuum within the entrepreneurship literature that has been waiting to be filled. Recently, the application of ideas and concepts from cognitive science has gained currency within entrepreneurship research, as evidenced by the growing accumulation of successful studies framed in entrepreneurial cognition terms. In this article we reexamine “the people side of entrepreneurship” by summarizing the state of play within the entrepreneurial cognition research stream, and by integrating the five articles accepted for publication in this special issue into this ongoing narrative. We believe that the constructs, variables, and proposed relationships under development within the cognitive perspective offer research concepts and techniques that are well suited to the analysis of problems that require better explanations of the contributions to entrepreneurship that are distinctly human.

Language as a mental travel guide

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles P. Davis ◽  
Gerry T. M. Altmann ◽  
Eiling Yee
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Travel Guide

Abstract Gilead et al.'s approach to human cognition places abstraction and prediction at the heart of “mental travel” under a “representational diversity” perspective that embraces foundational concepts in cognitive science. But, it gives insufficient credit to the possibility that the process of abstraction produces a gradient, and underestimates the importance of a highly influential domain in predictive cognition: language, and related, the emergence of experientially based structure through time.

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