How movies control your mind

This Article/Video was about how movies can control the way your brain works to get a reaction out of you This study is called Neurocinema. The video explains how a study was done to see how a group of people's brain would react to movies. The participants where attached to an MRI and their eyes were tracked. During the study they watched the good the bad and the ugly. And the results showed that their brains reacted very similarly to each others, and their eyes tracked the same parts of the screen. Next they compared those results, to watching of other things like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Curb your Enthusiasm and footage of a dog running through a park. The results showed that more brain activity was used when the scene was more engaging. With The Good the bad and the Ugly scoring high along with Alfred Hitchcock Presents, but Curb your Enthusiasm and the video of the dog scoring much lower. The Video then ends with talking about how this information could be used in the future with maybe videos you are watching change based on what your brain activity would be like. This would be ideal for Horror movies and could promise a very interesting experience. I thought this article was very interesting. I think it's interesting that our brains react differently to what we are watching based on how engaging it is. Like I said earlier at the end they talk about how this could be cool for an interactive experience where the movie changes based how you watch it. I think this is true, but I feel like this goes even more for Video Games. Specifically Virtual Reality games just because It's so much more immersible and interactive. You would feel like you are really there, and the game could really mess with your head because it knows how you are thinking. But anyways, good article and I look forward to seeing if this goes anywhere in the future.