Film music experience and experimental methods: Eye tracking, neuroaesthetics

This project explores the possibilities of using psychophysiological and neuroscientifical methods to study spectators' experience of audiovisual narrative, above all in fiction films. For example, eye-tracking measurements are employed to see whether, and in which ways, attention changes when different sound environments accompany the same scenes, or how the spectator's experience is changing due to shifting interactions between film and music. Eye tracking done so far shows potential not only of measuring spectators' experience, but also of being able to say something about the interaction of film and music in a film aesthetic and theoretical perspective.

This project explores the possibilities of using psychophysiological and neuroscientifical methods to study spectators' experience of audiovisual narrative, above all in fiction films. For example, eye-tracking measurements are employed to see whether, and in which ways, attention changes when different sound environments accompany the same scenes, or how the spectator's experience is changing due to shifting interactions between film and music. Eye tracking done so far shows potential not only of measuring spectators' experience, but also of being able to say something about the interaction of film and music in a film aesthetic and theoretical perspective.