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.

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 A chronotopic approach to identity performance in musical numbers: a choreo-musical case study of ‘Rewrite the Stars’ and ‘This Is Me’

2021 ◽  
pp. 147035722097406
Author(s):  
Nashwa Elyamany
Keyword(s):  
Film Music ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Identity Performance ◽  
Music Culture ◽  
Popular Discourse ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Eclectic Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Musical Discourse

Musical numbers, as viral modes of entertainment, influential forms of visual culture and catalysts of popular discourse are dense with multivariate aesthetic performers, and are interlaced to punctuate the melodramatic narrative texture in advancement of the plot and characterization in musical films. Performing identity through dancing bodies has been the subject of several film, music, culture, performance and communication research endeavours yet has rarely been explored from multimodal discourse analysis perspectives. To examine the ‘resilient identities’ underlying performances, the article adopts an eclectic approach informed by the Bakhtinian chronotope with regard to two numbers drawn from a recent American musical film in order to pinpoint: (a) the full repertoire of multimodal resources of narrative agency and identity performance; (b) the emotional experiences evoked by the musical numbers; and (c) the social practices that constitute, maintain and resist social realities and identities. The unconventional approach to the analysis of the musical numbers is what makes the current research project stand out among interdisciplinary studies of musical discourse.

scholarly journals Dez pontos sobre apresentações de slides, suas características e implicações para a prática docente

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (33) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Renata Amorim Cadena ◽  
Solange Galvão Coutinho
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Education Management ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Slide Shows

In this article, we describe important aspects of slide shows in ten topics, which involve: (a) the definition of this artefact; (b) its characteristics, linked to its historical development; (c) some criticism and problems in its structure and use; (d) results of empirical research regarding its use in an educational context; and (e) recommendations for improved practices in designing slideshows. The source of data was extracted from a literature review of several articles and books mainly from the areas of Education, Management and Cognitive Psychology.

Persuasion of voices: The effects of a speaker’s voice characteristics and gender on consumers’ responses

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-110
Author(s):  
Alice Zoghaib
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Condition ◽  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Product Category ◽  
Political Candidate ◽  
Competence Level ◽  
The Cross ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Cross Fertilization

Voices are present in most communications. Yet, the literature on voice persuasion is astonishingly limited and fragmented, focusing on certain voice characteristics (e.g. pitch), contexts, and providing mixed results. This research attempts to integrate the various constructs and mechanisms involved in voice persuasion as a result of the cross-fertilization of the disciplines having studied voice (psychoacoustics, cognitive psychology, anthropology, psycho-sociology, marketing, and politics). Study 1 manipulates via acoustic software the key voice characteristics (i.e. pitch, roughness, and brightness) and gender of a speaker heard in a radio advertisement for a neutral, non-gendered product category. Study 2 explores a potential boundary condition of the effects of voice, the presence of context-specific expectations toward the speaker (i.e. gender and competence level), by manipulating the voice of a political candidate. The effects of the voice characteristics are consistent in both contexts: speakers with low- (vs high-) pitched, dull (vs bright), and smooth (vs rough) voices are the most effective. Speakers with high-pitched, dull, and smooth voices are perceived as the most competent. Finally, speaker gender plays a secondary persuasive role; listener gender only plays a role in the absence of context-specific expectations toward the speaker. Implications for voice and speaker persuasion as well as for voice casting and coaching are discussed.

Consciousness: Problems and Prospects of Interdisciplinary Studies (“Problems of Conscious- ness: Research Opportunities” Round Table. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, January 28, 2019)

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-159
Author(s):  
David I. Dubrovsky ◽  
Ilya Y. Bulov
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Round Table ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Philosophical Problem ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
State University ◽  
Research Opportunities ◽  
Consciousness Studies ◽  
Academic Interests ◽  
Moscow State University

Round table summary. In January 2019, the Faculty of Philosophy of the Lomonosov Moscow State University held the round table “Problems of Consciousness: Research Opportunities.” It was dedicated to problems of interdisciplinary studies of consciousness. Many famous Russian specialists whose academic interests include consciousness, brain and mind took part in this event: K.V. Anokhin, D.I. Dubrovsky, T.V. Chernigovskaya, M.A. Piradov, A.A. Potapov, V.Y. Sergin, V.V. Vasil’ev, Z.A. Zorina and others. At the round table, the following problems were discussed: the specificity of consciousness problem, its relevance in various academic disciplines, contemporary research possibilities for consciousness studies to solve the problems that specialists actually face. Much attention was paid to the problems of neurobiology, empirical research of consciousness. Nonetheless, participants showed in their speeches that the problem of consciousness is also a philosophical problem. Hence, it requires thoughtful consideration of philosophers. Participants decided that for progress in solving this problem researchers from various (not only natural) disciplines have to cooperate.

Cognitive grounding for cross-cultural commercial communication

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorena Pérez Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Visual Cues ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Semantic Interpretation ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Image Schemas ◽  
Commercial Communication ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Core Meaning

AbstractInternationally recognized brands are an increasingly essential asset for present-day companies. This paper takes a cognitive perspective on the semantics of commercial brands (and their related logos), and explores the role of image schemas in endowing them with a cross-culturally significant core meaning. Two surveys were carried out among speakers of four different languages (i.e., English, Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic) in relation to the logos of several car categories (minis, family cars, 4 × 4s, and sports cars) and a limited set of image schemas (CONTAINER, FORCE, and ATTRIBUTE). The analysis of the results reveals a consistent correlation between the participants' semantic interpretation of the car brands, and the basic meanings deriving from the image schemas included in their logos. The outcome of the surveys also points to the existence of potential constraints on the universal reach of image-schematic-based communication. These limitations emerge either from the combination of image schemas with additional idealized cultural models, or from the use of specific richer configurations of the image-schematic visual cues at work. In this connection, the present study explores the inventory of visual configurations available for the representation of the image schemas under scrutiny, assesses their universal significance, and raises awareness about differences in the cross-cultural communicative effectiveness of the various layouts of a given image-schematic cue.

Antecedents of Frontline Employees' Customer Orientation: A Comprehensive Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-70
Author(s):  
Björn A. Hüttel
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Customer Orientation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Frontline Employees ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Review ◽  
Approaches To Study

This systematic literature review investigates the antecedents of frontline employees’ (FLEs) customer orientation (CO). In the literature various understandings of CO co-exist, which put an emphasis on different influencing factors and use different measurement approaches to study FLEs’ CO. The literature lacks a comprehensive literature review that structures and summarizes the fragmented empirical research on antecedents of FLEs’ CO. This study closes this gap by first, providing an extensive overview of the antecedents of FLEs’ CO, identifying and categorizing the factors that influence FLEs’ CO into four broad areas. Second, the study sheds light on the different understandings of CO and structures the fragmented literature. Based on the literature review, the study identifies avenues for future research in the field. Finally, the literature review gives guidance to managers by structuring starting points to enhance FLEs’ CO.

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