Abstract
This chapter discusses the perceptual aspects of motion pictures. There are visual sensory mechanisms that respond directly to specific movements within the retinal image or the visual field, but those responses do not account for the motions that we perceive. Cognitive factors affect the resultant moment-by-moment events that humans perceive, factors that cannot be explained simply as inferences or hypotheses. As events on the screen continue to unfold in time, viewers are left only with the cognitive consequences of earlier motions: at some point, psychologists can no longer ignore the contributions of such mental representation Mental representations are not simply models of the distal world, but are path-dependent, incomplete, and shifting construals. Despite the flirtations with mentalism, it is very important to identify the more sensory components of motion picture perception. Motion pictures offer a visual approach, increasingly easy to employ, to the nature of narration and discourse, and to the study of social psychology in its perceptual and cognitive aspects, that is almost impossible to achieve by other means.
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