On Cognitive Primitives and Trick Photography

Magic shows, advertising campaigns, and political propaganda all take advantage of the fact that one's perception of a given moving image is deeply influenced by past experience and emotional state. The art of these deceptions is to tell us what we expect to see, safe in the knowledge that so much of human perception takes place subconsciously that the trickery routinely passes unnoticed. The present paper argues that the often-forgotten investigations of perceptual causality by the Belgian cognitive psychologist Albert Michotte - summarised in Michotte (1963) - suggest ways in which deceitful cinematography might be forensically deconstructed.

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Derek J. Smith

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Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 308-309

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[0001]Cardiff Metropolitan University (retired) 55 Ty-Isaf Park Road, Cardiff NP11 6NH, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.60

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 9 - 13 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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A. Meinong 1902 Über Annahmen Barth, Leipzig
A. Michotte 1963 The Perception of Causality Methuen, London
Plato (380BCE) The Republic Internet Classics http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html (retrieved 26 March 2018
D. J. Smith 1993 The Psychology of Effective College Governance: Part 2 – the cognitive skills Journal of Further and Higher Education, 17 77 85

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[1] A. Meinong 1902 Über Annahmen Barth, Leipzig

[2] A. Michotte 1963 The Perception of Causality Methuen, London

[3] Plato (380BCE) The Republic Internet Classics http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html (retrieved 26 March 2018

[4] D. J. Smith 1993 The Psychology of Effective College Governance: Part 2 – the cognitive skills Journal of Further and Higher Education, 17 77 85

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