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I wonder if the reason we find slow motion in movies interesting (e.g. makes things more salient) is related to the time-perception-slows-during-startles thing.
by Strilanc 12y ago
I wonder if the reason we find slow motion in movies interesting (e.g. makes things more salient) is related to the time-perception-slows-during-startles thing.
(Assuming the startle slow-down is a side effect of the brain kicking up retention, based on the current experience having valuable information, we might learn to implicitly associate side-effects like time dilation with "this is valuable experience information". But mostly I have no idea what I'm talking about; I'm not even sure it's a well-formed testable idea.)
- pwr22 12y agoI think we find slo-mo interesting because it lets us experience the very passage of present time and events slowly, rather than just perceived passage which is after the fact.So we get to see things in a way we haven't before, which would presumably be more memorable and also would slow down perception of time passing....
- soylentcola 12y agoI think of it like zooming in on an image so that it's easier to process information in a higher resolution. Slow motion is like zooming in so that you can interpret things on a higher resolution as well (just on a different axis). Scrubbing back and forth across video is like interactive zoom where you can gather more precise information about a particular subset of the total data and compare to the whole.