Acoustic Startles in Horror Films

Projections ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-66
Author(s):  
Valerio Sbravatti
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Startle Response ◽  
Acoustic Startle ◽  
Sound Field ◽  
Horror Films ◽  
The Relationship

The acoustic blast is one of the most recurrent sound devices in horror cinema. It is designed to elicit the startle response from the audience, and thus gives them a “jump scare.” It can occur both in the form of a diegetic bang and in the form of a nondiegetic stinger (i.e., a musical blare provided by the score). In this article, I will advance the hypothesis that silence plays a crucial role in contemporary horror films, both perceptually, since it leaves the sound field free for the acoustic blast, and cognitively, since it posits the audience in an aversive anticipatory state that makes the startle more intense. I will analyze the acoustic startle using a neurofilmological approach, which takes into account findings from experimental sciences in order to better understand the relationship between physiological and psychological factors that make such an effect possible during the filmic experience.

The Relationship Between Acoustic Startle Response Measures and Cognitive Functions in Japanese Patients with Schizophrenia

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taro Kishi ◽  
Yasuhisa Fukuo ◽  
Tomo Okochi ◽  
Kunihiro Kawashima ◽  
Masatsugu Moriwaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Functions ◽  
Startle Response ◽  
Acoustic Startle ◽  
Acoustic Startle Response ◽  
Japanese Patients ◽  
Response Measures ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Inter-breeder differences in prepulse inhibition deficits of C57BL/6J mice in a maternal infection model for schizophrenia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yutaro Kobayashi ◽  
Hiroyoshi Inaba ◽  
Yuriko Iwakura ◽  
Hisaaki Namba ◽  
Hidekazu Sotoyama ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prepulse Inhibition ◽  
Startle Response ◽  
Acoustic Startle ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Poly I:C ◽  
Infection Model ◽  
Maternal Infection ◽  
Polycytidylic Acid ◽  
Genetic And Environmental Factors ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTGenetic and environmental factors interact with each other to influence the risk of various psychiatric diseases; however, the intensity and nature of their interactions remain to be elucidated. We used a maternal infection model using polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid (Poly(I:C)) to determine the relationship between the maternal breeding environment and behavioral changes in the offspring. We purchased pregnant C57BL/6J mice from three breeders and administered Poly(I:C) (2 mg/kg) intravenously in their tail vein on gestation day 15. The offspring were raised to 8-12 weeks old and subjected to the acoustic startle tests to measure their startle response intensity, prepulse inhibition levels, and degree of the adaptation of the startle response. No statistical interaction between Poly(I:C) administration and sex was observed for prepulse inhibition; thus, male and female mice were analyzed together. The Poly(I:C) challenge significantly decreased prepulse inhibition levels of the offspring born to the pregnant dams from Breeder A but not those from the other breeders. However, there were no significant inter-breeder differences in Poly(I:C) effects on startle response and on startle adaptation. The rearing environment of mouse dams has a prominent impact on the Poly(I:C)-induced prepulse inhibition deficits in this maternal infection model.

YouTube and the Syrian revolution

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cécile Boex
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Syrian Revolution ◽  
The Relationship

Since March 2011 the revolt in Syria has engendered a considerable and heterogeneous mass of videos made by demonstrators, activists, and fighters and posted on the Internet. During the peaceful manifestations between 2011 and 2013, the videos played a crucial role in the narrative of the revolt but also in the emergence of new modes of protesting focused on the work of the image. The author questions the effects of amateur video on the perception of the protest as well as on protest activities themselves in an ultra-repressive context. She pays particular attention to the relationship between the act of filming and the act of protesting, both linked by bodies, words, and emotions. Thus, it is an issue of exploring the different visual dimensions of the revolt in Syria, in accordance with the evolution of the movement and the spaces it occupied, to understand better how the protest experience is articulated and put into images.

The Acoustic Startle Response and Disruption of Aiming. 2. Modulation by Forewarning and Preliminary Stimuli

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Foss ◽  
James R. Ison ◽  
James P. Torre ◽  
Wansack Jr ◽  
Samuel
Keyword(s):  
Startle Response ◽  
Acoustic Startle ◽  
Acoustic Startle Response

Musical and Literary Portraiture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua S. Walden
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Gertrude Stein ◽  
Literary Portraits ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Poetry And Music

The first chapter examines musical portraits of literary figures. It first explores Virgil Thomson’s multiple works in the genre including his portrait of Gertrude Stein, to interpret the influence of Stein’s modernist literary portraits on Thomson’s compositions. It then turns to Pierre Boulez’s orchestral portrait Pli selon pli: portrait de Mallarmé. Analyzing Boulez’s incorporation of elements of Stéphane Mallarmé’s poetry as well as the complex and idiosyncratic theories regarding the relationship between poetry and music that Mallarmé developed in his essays. Through the discussion of these portraits, the chapter addresses the crucial role of language in the musical representation of identity.

scholarly journals Dysfunctions in Infants’ Statistical Learning are Related to Parental Autistic Traits

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettoni Roberta ◽  
Valentina Riva ◽  
Chiara Cantiani ◽  
Elena Maria Riboldi ◽  
Massimo Molteni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Social Skills ◽  
Statistical Learning ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Autistic Traits ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Statistical Structure ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Visual Habituation

AbstractStatistical learning refers to the ability to extract the statistical relations embedded in a sequence, and it plays a crucial role in the development of communicative and social skills that are impacted in the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Here, we investigated the relationship between infants’ SL ability and autistic traits in their parents. Using a visual habituation task, we tested infant offspring of adults (non-diagnosed) who show high (HAT infants) versus low (LAT infants) autistic traits. Results demonstrated that LAT infants learned the statistical structure embedded in a visual sequence, while HAT infants failed. Moreover, infants’ SL ability was related to autistic traits in their parents, further suggesting that early dysfunctions in SL might contribute to variabilities in ASD symptoms.

Impaired sensorimotor gating of the acoustic startle response in the prodrome of schizophrenia

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. S70 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.B. Quednow ◽  
I. Frommann ◽  
J. Berning ◽  
K.U. Kühn ◽  
W. Maier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Startle Response ◽  
Acoustic Startle ◽  
Acoustic Startle Response ◽  
Sensorimotor Gating
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