Categorizing moving objects into film genres: The effect of animacy attribution, emotional response, and the deviation from non-fiction

Cognition

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 265-272

  Visch, Valentijn T ^a   Tan, Ed S ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animacy; Categorization; Emotion; Genre; Motion picture; Movement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FILM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; VELOCITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CUES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58249139529     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.10.018     Document Type: Article

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