Relative perception; influenced by knowledge or expectations.
Temporal and spatial order
Audience cognitive construction of time, space and causality through the compilation of two parts at the time.
Six cognitive dimensions
Inherently linked with the narrative schema, it explains how the audience participates in the reconstruction of meaning in film.
Quotation
Semantic confirmation of the reference of a sonic ocurrence.
Persistence
Spectator willingness to fill in or ignore some information to maintain a particular spatial and/or temporal context.
Narrative schema
Describes how an audience collects a series of episode into a focused causal chain.
Multimodal perception
Perception that incorporates several sensorial inputs; in the case of cinema, sight and hearing mainly.
Modes of spectator awareness
Film spectatorship operates in three modes: story-awareness, medium-awareness, and world-awareness
Language identification
The ability to identify other languages, mostly foreign when not subtitled.
Bottom up perception
Absolute perception; information focused and not influenced by anything else