The Impact of the Hitchcockian Suspense Model and Its Associated Directing Style on the Horror Genre: A Neurocinematics Study

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Acknowledgment

Authors would like to acknowledge National Brain Mapping Laboratory (NBML), Tehran, Iran, for providing data acquisition (analysis) service for this research work.

Author Contributions

S.Kh.Kh was responsible for data gathering, selection of the films and the sequences, processing and article writing, while R.Kh was responsible for experimental design, article modification, and proofreading. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.

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Somayeh Khosravi Khorashad

Somayeh Khosravi Khorashad is a graduate in cognitive science and dramatic literature. When it comes to cinema, Neurocinematics, Attention and Perception are her areas of interest. She is also interested in screenwriting and film-making.

Reza Khosrowabadi

Reza Khosrowabadi received his PhD degree in computer science and engineering from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. After doing 2 years of post-doc at Duke-Nus graduate medical school on multimodal imaging and a year of postdoc on cognitive modeling, he joined the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. He is currently an assistant professor at the cognitive modeling department and his main topics of interest are biomedical signal and image processing, brain-computer interface, machine learning and multi-modal imaging.