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SCSMI2017 Helsinki

The annual conference of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) welcomes you to the Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, June 11th – 14th, 2017

SCSMI2017 Helsinki program is under construction and changes are to occur. Meanwhile you may complete your personal information with a photo and some tags, so the other attendees and speakers will get to know more of you and your interests, and vice versa.

Go to registration or check practical information about accommodation etc. at http://scsmi2017.aalto.fi/

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Ed Tan

University of Copenhagen
Affiliate Professor
Netherlands

Ed Tan carried out research in the psychology of film and media. He (co-)authored publications on emotion and cognition in viewers of film, television, players of games and theatre spectators.

09:00 EEST

Good morning! Welcome to registration! Aalto Big Hall, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (1st floor)

10:00 EEST

Welcome words to SCSMI2017 HELSINKI by Dr Pia Tikka Aalto Big Hall, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (1st floor)Pia Tikka

10:10 EEST

Opening SCSMI 20 years by Dr Murray Smith Aalto Big Hall, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (1st floor)Murray Smith

10:20 EEST

SCSMI KEYNOTE by Dr Paisley Nathan Livingston: On cinema as philosophy: the Kaila–Bergman connection revisited Aalto Big Hall, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (1st floor)Paisley Nathan Livingston

11:30 EEST

The 100 years of Independent Finnish Cinema Aalto Big Hall, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (1st floor)Henry Bacon • Jaakko Seppälä • Outi Hupaniittu

12:30 EEST

Refreshments Aalto Big Hall, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (1st floor)

13:15 EEST

KEYNOTE Dr. Julia Vassilieva. Eisenstein-Vygotsky-Luria’s collaboration and third culture debates. Aalto Big Hall, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (1st floor)Julia Vassilieva

14:15 EEST

Neurocinematics - a follow-up Aalto Big Hall, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (1st floor)Pia Tikka

14:45 EEST

KEYNOTE by Dr Lauri Nummenmaa: Emotions, cinema and the Brain Aalto Big Hall, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (1st floor)Lauri Nummenmaa

15:45 EEST

Refreshments Aalto Big Hall, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (1st floor)

16:15 EEST

KEYNOTE by Dr. Asta Kärkkäinen, NOKIA: 3D audio in immersive movies Aalto Big Hall, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (1st floor)Asta Kärkkäinen

17:15 EEST

Discussion Aalto Big Hall, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (1st floor)

17:30 EEST

SCSMI Board Meeting TBCMurray Smith

18:30 EEST

Get-together at Allas Sea Pool Bar Allas Cafe & Restaurant

20:00 EEST

Get-together at Allas Sea Pool SAUNA Allas Sea Pool

09:15 EEST

Good morning! Aalto Hallway 3rd floor - Refreshments

09:30 EEST

LP Francesco Sticchi: Inside the 'mind' of Llewyn Davis: Embodying a Melancholic Vision of the World A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Francesco Sticchi LP Mehul Bhatt, Jakob Suchan and Omar Moussa. What can Artiﬁcial Intelligence do for Cognitive Media Studies? -- Integrated Analytical-Empirical Methods from the Viewpoint of Visuo-Auditory Cognition A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Mehul Bhatt • Omar Moussa • Jakob Suchan LP Wyatt Moss-Wellington: A Social Narratology of Film A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Wyatt Moss-Wellington

10:30 EEST

SP Jaakko Seppälä. Representations of loneliness in the cinema of Aki Kaurismäki A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Jaakko Seppälä SP Jakob Suchan, Mehul Bhatt, Rocio Varela and Johanna Arens: Obsessed by Symmetry: -Wes Anderson and his Visuo-Cinemato-graphic Scene Structures and their Perceptual Reception A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Mehul Bhatt • Jakob Suchan SP Keyvan Sarkhosh. What is the feel-good factor of feel-good ﬁlms? Results from an online survey on the generic outlines, narrative and aesthetic properties and emotional effects of a popular movie type A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Keyvan Sarkhosh

11:00 EEST

SP Einar Egeland, Tor Endestad and Bruno Laeng. Different editing styles influence eye movements, pupilometry and emotional experience of a film scene. A neuro- cognitive approach to a film editor’s decision... A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Einar Egeland SP Mette Hjort. Feel Good Films and Positive Emotions: Film in the Context of Health and Well-Being A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Mette Hjort

11:30 EEST

SP Miklos Kiss and Steven Willemsen. Impossible Puzzle Films: ambiguous framings and framing ambiguities in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Steven Willemsen SP Brendan Rooney, Katalin Balint, Colin Burke, Sharon Chi Tak Lee, Caroline Mantei and Tess O'Leary: The effect of engagement-mode and character eye-gaze on viewers of a virtual reality ﬁlm. A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Katalin Bálint • Brendan Rooney SP Tico Romao. Embodiment, Cognitive Linguistics and Character Interiority: A Critique A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Tico Romao

12:00 EEST

Lunch Aalto in-house lunch restaurant SCSMI Fellow Lunch Meeting TBCMurray Smith

13:00 EEST

LP Keith Bound: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Defining Cinematic Suspense A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Keith Bound LP Tim J. Smith. The irresistible allure of screens: Is touchscreen use impacting child development? A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Tim J. Smith LP Joerg Fingerhut and Katrin Heimann. Film and 4EA cognition. Movies as part of our artifactual mind A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Joerg Fingerhut

14:00 EEST

SP Alaina Schempp. What’s So Scary About Time? The Temporality of Cinematic Suspense in Horror and Suspense-Thriller Films A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Alaina Schempp LP John Bateman, Janne Kauttonen, Chiao-I Tseng and Pia Tikka. Textual analysis of event patterns and neural functions of narrative constructions in ﬁlm A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Janne Kauttonen • Chiao-I Tseng SP Michael Grabowski. Perception and Poetics of Virtual Reality A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Michael Grabowski

14:30 EEST

SP Bregt Lameris. Colorful Depictions of Disgust in Cinematic Representations A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Bregt Lameris SP Catalin Brylla and Metter Kramer Cognitive Film Studies and Four Approaches to Documentary Film A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Catalin Brylla

15:00 EEST

Refreshments Aalto Hallway 3rd floor - Refreshments

15:30 EEST

LP Chiao-I Tseng, Jochen Laubrock, Jessie Nixon and John Bateman. Constraining film narrative interpretation through combinations of cohesion in film and eye-tracking A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Jochen Laubrock • Chiao-I Tseng LP Flueckiger Barbara. Film Colors, Textures, Lights. How Color Appearance Corresponds to Characters’ Inner States A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Barbara Flueckiger

16:30 EEST

PD Mamdooh Afdile. Movie characters and their hidden potential in understanding social perception A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Mamdooh Afdile PP/DP Elisabeth Morney, Sarah Sumners and Aubra Shepard. Beyond the craft: Exploring elements of the creative process in the development of new television concepts A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Elisabeth Morney • Aubra Shepard • Sarah Sumners PP/DP Szilvia Ruszev. Vizualizing Editing A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Szilvia Ruszev

17:00 EEST

PP/DP Eija Niskanen. Camera angle and movement in animation A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Eija Niskanen PP/DP Johanna Arens, Mehul Bhatt, Hubert Kloskowski, Vasiliki Kondyli, Sk Nahiduzzaman, Omar Moussa, Jakob Suchan, R ocio Varela, Abdur Rahman, Md Mamunuzzaman and Daniele Tatasciore. Embodied Cognitive Experiences... A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Johanna Arens • Omar Moussa PP/DP Marie-Laure Cazin. Cinema and neuroscience, the case of emotive cinema A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Marie-Laure Cazin

19:00 EEST

THE FINNISH FILM NIGHT AT ORION: Mika Kaurimäki "The Worthless" (1982) (English subtitles) Kavi Orion Cinema

09:15 EEST

Good morning! Aalto Hallway 3rd floor - Refreshments

09:30 EEST

SPECIAL FILM EVENT "Woman with an Editing Bench" by Dr. Karen Pearlman A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Karen Pearlman

10:00 EEST

Keynote by Saku Lehtinen, Remedy: Cinematic games A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Pia Tikka • Saku Lehtinen

11:00 EEST

SP Dirk Eitzen. The “Post-Truth” Phenomenon: Where It Comes From, How It Works, Why it Matters A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Dirk Eitzen SP Moran Ovadia, Gal Raz and Talma Hendler. 2 Sisters - 2 Neuropsychological Constellations in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Moran Ovadia

11:30 EEST

SP Colin Burke, Lene Heiselberg, Katalin Balint and Brendan Rooney. Narration alone or accompanied by acted events in a historical documentary: Exploring cognitive effort and emotional arousal using measures of... A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Katalin Bálint

12:00 EEST

Lunch Aalto in-house lunch restaurant

13:00 EEST

LP Monika Suckfüll. The Effects of Information Gaps in Movies A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Monika Suckfüll LP Kathrin Fahlenbrach. Televisual Aesthetics: Audiovisual Spaces, Moods and Symbolic Meanings in Complex TV-Series A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Kathrin Fahlenbrach LP Adriano D'Aloia and Ruggero Eugeni. What time is in? Subjective Perception of Time in the Audiovisual Experience A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Adriano D’Aloia • Ruggero Eugeni

14:30 EEST

SP Maria Poulaki. Transformative continuity A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Maria Poulaki SP Jason Gendler. Television Narrative and the Potential for Change A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Jason Gendler SP Miriam Laura Loertscher and Christian Iseli. The Cinematic Look and the Paradox of High Frame Rates A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Miriam Laura Loertscher

15:00 EEST

SP Sebastian Armbrust and Maike Sarah Reinerth. Voice-over narration and subjectivity in serial television drama. An exploration of narratorial functions, subjective access, and narrative engagement. A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Sebastian Armbrust • Maike Sarah Reinerth SP Kata Szita. Movies on Smartphones: The Physiological Effects of Screen Size, Physical Connection, and the Active Environment A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Kata Szita

15:30 EEST

Refreshments Aalto Hallway 3rd floor - Refreshments

16:00 EEST

SP Johannes Riis. The balancing of performer expressiveness against narrative objects of emotion A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Johannes Riis SP Stephen Hinde, Tim Smith and Katrin Heimann. Experimental psychology in cinema using mobile technologies. A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Dr Stephen J. Hinde SP Jussi Tarvainen, Jorma Laaksonen and Tapio Takala. Film mood and its quantitative determinants in different types of scenes A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Jussi Tarvainen

16:30 EEST

LP Robert Blanchet. The misunderstanding of “understanding”: Empathizing with ﬁlm characters on the level of action and motivation A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Robert Blanchet LP Hector J. Perez and Maria Jesus Ortiz. Emotional and Cognitive Effects of Multiplot Structure in TV Serial Narratives A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Maria J. Ortiz • Hector J. Perez

18:00 EEST

GET-TOGETHER AT THE FAMOUS CORONA BAR Corona Bar - Conference Club

20:00 EEST

CONFERENCE DINNER (PRE-PAID) Lasipalatsi Restaurant

09:15 EEST

Good morning! Aalto Hallway 3rd floor - Refreshments

09:30 EEST

LP Eliot Bessette. Fear without Empathy and Empathy with Fear A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Eliot Bessette LP Torben Grodal. Aesthetics and emotions in animated ﬁlms A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Torben Grodal

10:30 EEST

SP Claire Howlin, Guido Orgs and Staci Vicary. The Search for kinaesthetic empathy: performer acceleration, aesthetic responses and physiological arousal A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Claire Howlin

11:00 EEST

SP Peter Turner: Personal imagining and the point-of-view shot in diegetic camera horror ﬁlms A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Peter Turner SP Helane Rosenberg and Nathaniel Epstein. The Mental Imaging of the Filmmaking Team: How Directors, Cinematographers, and Editors Create, Modify, and Finalize their Filmic Images A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Helane Rosenberg SP Juipi Chien. What we gain from engaging with oddities and ambiguities: Neuro-evolutionary semiotic approach to lowly arousal emotions A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Juipi Chien

11:30 EEST

SP Ed Tan and Katalin Bálint. The phenomenology of characterisation. From social cognition of real persons to the construction of ﬁctional human-like ﬁgures in narrative. A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Katalin Bálint • Ed Tan SP Gal Raz, Oﬁr Shany and Tal Gonen. We’re chained in action: A Neuroscientiﬁc Model of Motivational Empathy A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Gal Raz

12:00 EEST

Lunch Aalto in-house lunch restaurant

13:00 EEST

LP Todd Berliner: Bursting into Song in the Hollywood Musical A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Todd Berliner SP Katalin Balint, Chantal Schoft and Brendan Rooney. The Effect of Formal Features on Viewers’ Narrative Engagement in Quentin Tarantino’s Violent Scenes A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Katalin Bálint • Brendan Rooney LP Douglas MacArthur, Javid Sadr and Aaron Taylor. Accounting for Acting: Generating and Recognizing “Reality Effects” in Film Performance A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Aaron Taylor

13:30 EEST

SP Sermin Ildirar and Tim J. Smith. Action Prediction Across Match-on-Action Cuts in Infancy A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Sermin Ildirar • Tim J. Smith

14:00 EEST

SP Sampsa Huttunen. Right-Handed Action for Right-Handed Audiences: Does Handedness Affect the Film- Watching Experience? A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Sampsa Huttunen