Analysis Of Flicker: Your Brain On Movies

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The act of crying at a film is a common concept to all people as in any film, there are elements of tragedy. These are normally presented through a multi-sensory experience for the audience and directors always want an empathetic response to a film, creating memories of a certain emotion. The idea of crying at a movie or film or any other emotional response comes from two pre-conceived ideas which relate to the nature of our brains, according to Jeffrey Zacks, a professor of psychology and director of the Dynamic Cognition Laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis who has recently written a book called “Flicker: Your Brain on Movies”, exploring the two fundamental reasons why humans produce such a powerful response to certain films and I will be …show more content…

This idea is from emotion memory which is discussed in Zacks’ book, “Flicker: Your Brain on Movies” and says that when we experience emotion, it has already been defined and remembered by the brain and the memories of several characteristics, both facial and physical that allow people to recognise emotion. An example of this is when we cry, the tear ducts are sent a message by the brain to be stimulated as it becomes part of muscle memory. Physically, having a hunched posture and often not showing our face overlap with the emotion of embarrassment and allow people to recognise these characteristics however, these actions are derived from the past and what the brain can remember to do to display someone’s emotion at a specific time. The memories will have been founded from infancy, the time in a person’s life when the most learning occurs and where emotions are remembered, often shaping our personalities in adult life according to stimuli and surroundings in

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