Perceptual oddities: assessing the relationship between film editing and prediction processes

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• dc.contributor.author Drew, Alice
• dc.contributor.author Soto Faraco, Salvador
• dc.date.accessioned 2025-06-19T08:53:36Z
• dc.date.available 2025-06-19T08:53:36Z
• dc.date.issued 2023
• dc.description.abstract During film viewing, humans parse sequences of individual shots into larger narrative structures, often weaving transitions at edit points into an apparently seamless and continuous flow. Editing helps filmmakers manipulate visual transitions to induce feelings of fluency/disfluency, tension/relief, curiosity, expectation and several emotional responses. We propose that the perceptual dynamics induced by film editing can be captured by a predictive processing (PP) framework. We hypothesise that visual discontinuities at edit points produce discrepancies between anticipated and actual sensory input, leading to prediction error. Further, we propose that the magnitude of prediction error depends on the predictability of each shot within the narrative flow, and lay out an account based on conflict monitoring. We test this hypothesis in two empirical studies measuring electroencephalography (EEG) during passive viewing of film excerpts, as well as behavioural responses during an active edit detection task. We report the neural and behavioural modulations at editing boundaries across three levels of narrative depth, showing greater modulations for edits spanning less predictable, deeper narrative transitions. Overall, our contribution lays the groundwork for understanding film editing from a PP perspective. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Art, aesthetics and predictive processing: theoretical and empirical perspectivess’.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research was supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (grant no. PID2019-108531GB-I00 AEI/FEDER) grants to S.S.-F. and AGAUR Generalitat de Catalunya (grant no. 2021 SGR 00911) grants to A.D.
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• dc.identifier.citation Drew A, Soto-Faraco S. Perceptual oddities: assessing the relationship between film editing and prediction processes. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2023 Jan 29;379(1895):20220426. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0426
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0426
• dc.identifier.issn 0962-8436
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/70727
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Royal Society
• dc.relation.ispartof Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 2023 Jan 29;379(1895):20220426
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PID2019-108531GB-I00
• dc.rights © 2023 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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• dc.subject.keyword Cognitive conflict
• dc.subject.keyword Predictive processing
• dc.subject.keyword Theta oscillations
• dc.subject.keyword Film editing
• dc.subject.keyword Electroencephalography
• dc.subject.keyword Neurocinematics
• dc.title Perceptual oddities: assessing the relationship between film editing and prediction processes
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