FMS COLLOQUIUM LECTURE SERIES - "DYNAMICS OF COMPREHENSION, MEMORY AND STORYTELLING"

Human brains are big complex systems that are tethered to a big complex world. When researchers show people movies or stories, we constrain the dynamics of the world and reveal striking alignment in their behavior and brain activity. This means that movies and stories are powerful drivers of the dynamics of understanding, and it gives us a powerful tool for psychology and neuroscience-with potential payoffs for reverse engineering film and media. By measuring how people's perceptions, memories, and brain states evolve during movies and stories, we can learn important new things about how people comprehend and how storytelling molds comprehension.

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