Sermin Ildirar is a Marie S. Curie postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London. She studied Film and Media studies at Istanbul University and University of Vienna. She works on perceptual and cognitive processes during viewing by adults and infants. She is also director of several short movies and co-scriptwriter of a feature movie and a computer game. Her publications include Schwan, S., & Ildirar, S. (2010). Watching Film for the First Time How Adult Viewers Interpret Perceptual Discontinuities in Film. Psychological Science; Ildirar, S., & Schwan, S. (2015). First‐time viewers' comprehension of films: Bridging shot transitions. British Journal of Psychology, 106(1), 133-151. Ildirar, S. (2016). Indexing the Events of an Art Film by Audiences with Different Viewing Backgrounds. Making Sense of Cinema: Empirical Studies Into Film Spectators and Spectatorship, 235.