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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/

Sebastian Armbrust

University of Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany

Sebastian Armbrust is a research associate at the University of Hamburg’s Institute for Media and Communication. He graduated in Media Culture and American Studies with an M.A. thesis on visual metaphor in film. He has published several papers related to his ongoing doctoral dissertation project on serial plotting in U.S. television drama, which draws on theoretical models from cognitive narratology and semantics to analyze the construction of serial stories and their fictional worlds.

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

18:30 EEST

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

09:30 EEST

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 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

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

13:00 EEST

LP Keith Bound: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Defining Cinematic Suspense A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Keith Bound

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

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

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

11:30 EEST

SP Philip Hohle. Heroes Without a Film, Films Without a Hero: Herophobic Voices in Postmodern Independent Cinema A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Philip Hohle

13:00 EEST

LP Monika Suckfüll. The Effects of Information Gaps in Movies A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Monika Suckfüll

14:00 EEST

SP Fernando Canet. Long-term relationship with characters in TV series: the ﬂuctuating engagement with antiheros A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Fernando Canet

14:30 EEST

SP Jason Gendler. Television Narrative and the Potential for Change A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Jason Gendler

16:00 EEST

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

16:30 EEST

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

20:00 EEST

CONFERENCE DINNER (PRE-PAID) Lasipalatsi Restaurant

09:30 EEST

LP Eliot Bessette. Fear without Empathy and Empathy with Fear A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Eliot Bessette

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 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

13:00 EEST

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

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

14:30 EEST

SP Anne Wabeke. The Antihero as 'one of ourselves' A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Anne Wabeke