Summer Scholars Experience: Grant Brighter

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Summer Scholars Experience: Grant Brighter

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The Summer Scholars Program provides students in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Ithaca College with a full-time opportunity to engage in a research/scholarly/creative project during the summer with direct and ongoing mentorship by an H&S faculty member. This award is given to high-achieving students through a competitive proposal-based process. In 2017, 20 students received H&S Summer Scholar awards.

Grant Brighter

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Graduation Date: May 2019

Academic programs: Majors: Psychology, Cinema and Photography; Minors: Neuroscience and Chemistry

Faculty mentor: Professor Nancy Rader, Psychology

Assessing the Effect of Continuity Editing Techniques on Filmgoers’ Perceptions of Filmic Narratives

My Summer Scholars project is a psychological experiment that tests the perceptual effects of certain film editing techniques. I spent the summer preparing the project, and will collect data in the fall of 2017. Test subjects will be shown a video that I created, and their eye movements and brain activity will be measured. I will be looking for evidence that certain editing techniques create greater processing difficulty than others. 

 
Author: Grant Brighter
Last modified: 9/4/2017 8:53 AM (EST)