As time goes by: SMA neuromodulation and time perception while watchingmoving images with different editing styles. A tDCS study

Alice Cancer, Stefania Balzarotti, Alessandro Antonietti, Adriano Daloia, Ruggero Eugeni, “As time goes by: SMA neuromodulation and time perception while watching moving images with different editing styles. A tDCS study”, Papers submitted under invitation to Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Received on 18 March 2025. Under revision In the context of the neurofilmological approach – which integrates …

The Editing Density of Moving Images Influences Viewers’ Time Perception: The Mediating Role of Eye Movements

Stefania Balzarotti, Federica Cavaletti, Barbara Colombo, Elisa Cardani, Maria Rita Ciceri, Alessandro Antonietti, Ruggero Eugeni, “The Editing Density of Moving Images Influences Viewers’ Time Perception: The Mediating Role of Eye Movements”, in Cognitive Science. A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021 Apr; 45(4): e12969. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12969. PMID: 33844350 The present study examined whether cinematographic editing density affects viewers’ perception of …

Out of Joint. Audiovisual Media as Technologies of the Time

Ruggero Eugeni, “Out of Joint. Audiovisual Media as Technologies of the Time”, in Luca Malavasi, Sara Tongiani (eds.), Technophobia and Technophilia in the Media, Art and Visual Culture, Canterano (RM), Aracne, 2020, pp. 15-28, ISBN 978-88-255-3985-1 In this paper, I raise the question of whether audiovisual media, notably cinema, can be considered as technologies of the …

It Doesn’t Seem_It, But It Is. A Neurofilmological Approach to the Subjective Experience of Moving-Image Time

Ruggero Eugeni, Stefania Balzarotti, Federica Cavaletti, Adriano D’Aloia, “It Doesn’t Seem_It, But It Is. A Neurofilmological Approach to the Subjective Experience of Moving-Image Time”, in  Antonio Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone (eds.), The Extended Theory of Cognitive Creativity. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Performativity, Cham, Springer, 2020, pp. 243-265. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22090-7_16 This article illustrates the first steps of a research project concerning …

What Time Is In? Subjective Experience and Evaluation of Moving Image Time

Ruggero Eugeni, “What Time Is In? Subjective Experience and Evaluation of Moving Image Time”, in Reti, saperi, linguaggi – Italian Journal of Cognitive Sciences, 1/2018, January-June, pp. 81-96, DOI: 10.12832/90973 This is the first article deriving from the project Time perception and performativity in audiovisual experiences: editing, camera movements, action and narrative manipulations. A neurofilmological approach (PRIN project …

Semiótica audiovisual y neurociencia cognitiva. El proyecto de la neurofilmología  y la cuestión de la experiencia temporal

Ruggero Eugeni, “Semiótica audiovisual y neurociencia cognitiva. El proyecto de la neurofilmología  y la cuestión de la experiencia temporal.”, in Signa, n. 32, 2023, pp. 29-40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5944/signa.vol32.2023.36109 Este artículo presenta un marco de investigación basado en el diálogo entre semiótica audiovisual y ciencias neurocognitivas llamado Neurofilmología que actualiza la semiótica interpretativa y que busca esbozar un modelo …

METRO_ART at the NECS 2025 Conference in Lisbon

The NECS 2025 ConferenceUniversidade Lusófona, 20-21 June, 2025Discovering/Uncovering. Navigating the complexities of screen media Uncovering the evidence. Neurofilmological approaches to the audiovisual and VR experience Over the past twenty years, the relationship between cognitive sciences and film and media studies has evolved rapidly. This trend has been mainly driven by internal transformations in cognitive sciences, …

Embodying Visual Culture conference

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Embodying Visual Culture. A Multidisciplinary Inquiry Palermo, June 10-13, 2025 Ruggero Eugeni will take part into Embodying Visual Culture conference held at the University of Palermo with the paper As Time Goes By: A Neurofilmological Approach to Temporal and Rhythmical Dimensions of Audiovisual Experience. The international conference explores the relationship between embodiment and visual …

Rethinking Rhythm in Film symposium

Anna Kolesnikov delivered the paper on simulating drone and bodily gestures entitled “Rhythmic Patterns and Time Perception in Audiovisual Experience” at the Rethinking Rhythm in Film one-day symposium, held at Anglia Ruskin University on 22 May 2025. More than fifty years ago, Noël Burch observed that ‘cinematic rhythm is defined by the sum total of …

Ritmi diacronici. Una storia delle arti immersive in Italia

Il ciclo di seminari Ritmi virtuali. Linguaggio, industria e mercato dei media immersivi, promosso dall’unità dell’Università degli studi di Bergamo del progetto Metro_Art, si è concluso il 27 maggio 2025 con l’intervento di Maria Grazia Mattei, fondatrice e presidente del MEET Digital Culture Center di Milano. A partire da alcuni spunti legati alla sua personale …