Movies for a scientific mind

Temporal fractals in movies and mind

Fractal patterns are seemingly everywhere. They can be analyzed through Fourier and power analyses, and other methods. Cutting, DeLong, and Nothelfer (2010) analyzed as time-series data the fluctuations of shot durations in 150 popular movies released over 70 years. They found that these patterns had become increasingly fractal-like and concluded that they might be linked to those found in the ...

Mind Matters: a new scientific era

The Instantiation and Use of Conceptual Simulations: Movies in the Mind to Connect Theory and Data in Scientific Visualization

We investigate the relationship among internal and external visualizations and domain knowledge in expert scientists. We observed scientists as they analyzed their own data using computer-based visualization tools. All the scientists used sequences of dynamic mental images (conceptual simulations) in their investigations. They used conceptual simulations primarily to evaluate hypotheses about t...

Gaming and the scientific mind- Designing games to develop the scientific mind

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MECCA: Hypermedia Capturing of Collaborative Scientific Discourses about Movies

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