#184: Jeffrey Martin Zacks x Columbia Tatone - “Flicker: Your Brain On Movies”
Jeffrey Martin Zacks, American psychology educator, member of the American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, and the Cognitive Science Society.
His book, Flicker: Your Brain on Movies, delves into the history of cinema and the latest research to explain what happens in your brain when you sit down in the theatre and the lights go out.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
- How the brain helps us think perceive and aid us in solving problems
- Mirror neurons
- The impact that film has on it’s viewers
- Mimicking attributes of the brain and how it specifically helps us in daily life
- Film perception
- Evoking and implementing cues for specific responses within films
- “The willing suspension of belief”
- Kids viewing violent films and how it affects them when they are adults
- Mindset and engagement
- Age and films
- Neuroplasticity
- The “nimble brain”
- The brain’s development and how we can shift the way we think in order to retain a greater amount of plasticity
- Movies and the brain’s correspondence with what we are visualizing
- “Feeling” what we are viewing
- Creating plots and narratives that affect your emotion
- The power of non-analytical effects
- The documentary “The Social Dilemma”, and Jeff’s views on the way technology is progressing
- “What are you subscribing to?”
- Children and social media
- Reflecting on how we use social media and how it influences our brain and habits