APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Dynamic Changes in Narrative Transportation Affect Attention, Memory, and Other Brain Processes
- Eric Schumacher
Georgia Institute of Technology - Matthew Bezdek
Georgia Institute of Technology - William Wenzel
Stony Brook University, The State University of New York - Richard Gerrig
Stony Brook University, The State University of New York
Abstract
We investigate the effect of transportation using suspenseful films and fMRI. With increasing suspense, activation in central visual and attention regions increase and peripheral visual and default-mode regions decrease. Suspense also improves memory. These results illustrate how information processing is organized to interesting and engaging stimuli on a moment-to-moment basis.
Cognitive Neuroscience
