{"id":118911,"date":"2021-01-27T00:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T08:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/eye-tracking-research-sheds-light-on-how-background-music-influences-our-perception-of-visual-scenes"},"modified":"2021-01-27T00:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T08:22:18","slug":"eye-tracking-research-sheds-light-on-how-background-music-influences-our-perception-of-visual-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/eye-tracking-research-sheds-light-on-how-background-music-influences-our-perception-of-visual-scenes","title":{"rendered":"Eye-tracking research sheds light on how background music influences our perception of visual scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eye-tracking-research-sheds-light-on-how-background-music-influences-our-perception-of-visual-scenes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a new study, the mood of background music in a movie scene affects a person\u2019s empathy toward the main character and their interpretation of the plot, environment, and character\u2019s personality traits. The findings were published in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fpsyg.2020.02242\/full\"><em> Frontiers in Psychology<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While researchers have long studied the impact of music on human behavior, fewer studies have explored how music can affect a person\u2019s interpretation of film. Study authors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Alessandro_Ansani\">Alessandro Ansani<\/a> and team aimed to explore this by experimentally manipulating the soundtrack of an ambiguous movie scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always been interested in music and cinema, since I was a baby; my mother told me she used to put me in front of our stereo to calm me down when I was crying, for some reason,\u201d said Ansani, a PhD student at Sapienza University of Rome and research assistant at the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/cosmiclabromatre\/home\">CoSMIC Lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new study, the mood of background music in a movie scene affects a person\u2019s empathy toward the main character and their interpretation of the plot, environment, and character\u2019s personality traits. The findings were published in Frontiers in Psychology. While researchers have long studied the impact of music on human behavior, fewer studies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}