Flicker: Your Brain On Movies with Jeffrey Martin Zacks x Columbia Tatone | AD 184
Jeffrey Martin Zacks, American psychology educator, member of the American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, and the Cognitive Science Society.\xa0
His book, Flicker: Your Brain on Movies,\xa0delves 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\u2019s 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
- \u201cThe willing suspension of belief\u201d
- Kids viewing violent films and how it affects them when they are adults
- Mindset and engagement
- Age and films
- Neuroplasticity
- The \u201cnimble brain\u201d
- The brain\u2019s development and how we can shift the way we think in order to retain a greater amount of plasticity
- Movies and the brain\u2019s correspondence with what we are visualizing
- \u201cFeeling\u201d what we are viewing
- Creating plots and narratives that affect your emotion
- The power of non-analytical effects
- The documentary \u201cThe Social Dilemma\u201d, and Jeff\u2019s views on the way technology is progressing
- \u201cWhat are you subscribing to?\u201d
- Children and social media
- Reflecting on how we use social media and how it influences our brain and habits
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