Lights, Camera, Perception: How Movies Mold your Mind | Grant Brighter | TEDxIthacaCollege

For most of us, watching a movie is a pretty effortless task . However, the process of comprehending a film is actually a rather unnatural phenomenon. In this TED talk, speaker Grant Brighter explores the ways our mind is trained to make sense of movies. Grant is a psychology major, film major, and neuroscience and chemistry double minor. He is a member of the Park Scholar Program and the Ithaca College Honors Program. Grant is working on his Honors Thesis, which uses brain imaging and eye tracking technology to study how people watch movies. Grant’s essay, “Warped Space-Time: Exploiting Schematic Assumptions in ‘Ritual in Transfigured Time,’” received the Park School Student Writing Award. This paper uses psychological theories to analyze the editing of an avant-garde film. It was one of 30 essays from around the world selected for presentation at the 2017 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Undergraduate Conference, the world’s most prestigious undergraduate media studies conference. It will also be published in Film Matters, the preeminent undergraduate academic film journal. Grant also is involved in media-related service programs, volunteers at Cayuga Medical Center, and is the vice-president of Ithaca College’s Club Swim Team. Grant is a psychology major, film major, and neuroscience and chemistry double minor. He is a member of the Park Scholar Program and the Ithaca College Honors Program. Grant is working on his Honors Thesis, which uses brain imaging and eye tracking technology to study how people watch movies. Grant’s essay, “Warped Space-Time: Exploiting Schematic Assumptions in ‘Ritual in Transfigured Time,’” received the Park School Student Writing Award. This paper uses psychological theories to analyze the editing of an avant-garde film. It was one of 30 essays from around the world selected for presentation at the 2017 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Undergraduate Conference, the world’s most prestigious undergraduate media studies conference. It will also be published in Film Matters, the preeminent undergraduate academic film journal. Grant also is involved in media-related service programs, volunteers at Cayuga Medical Center, and is the vice-president of Ithaca College’s Club Swim Team. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx