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I'm off to the cinema, bye!

Postdoc @VUamsterdam

PhD Film Cognition @ CINElab Birkbeck-UAL
MA @FilmTV_UC3M
Board Member @ForumforYoungScientists
Mark your calendars 📅:
SCSMI 2026 in Amsterdam 🇳🇱 next June!
We can’t wait to welcome you—just don’t forget to send in your abstracts before the deadline 🖊️✨
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Here it is!
📢📢 Call for Papers – Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) 2026 conference 🎬🧠

🗓 June 10–13, 2026
📍 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Full CFP details here below and here 👉👉 scsmi-online.org/conference

Share with your colleagues! 🌍🧑‍🤝‍🧑
September 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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The latest issue of Projections 🎞️ has been published! Vol. 19, Issue 2 "Special Issue on Serial Television" is available for purchase here! bit.ly/3Iw0kWD

View the TOC: bit.ly/4nknuOV

Guest Edited by @gendler.bsky.social and Héctor J. Pérez.
Featuring research by @cynthiacabanas.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Thanks for reading/sharing the paper Stephen!
With Katalin Balint's Story Lab at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social, @cynthiacabanas.bsky.social,
we've been extending this work to look at other #FilmFeatures and other #AudienceResponses.
We love this topic!😍
Close-ups make us care... but only up to a point.

This study tested how the number of close-ups affects how viewers describe a character’s inner life. Same film, different versions, each with a different number of face shots.

Here's what they found... (Thread)
July 11, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Amazing time at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social at the Power of Stories symposium by Katalin Bálint's StoryLab and her team (kudos to @cynthiacabanas.bsky.social).
@dieheiselberg.bsky.social presented our BAS research and I got to present my diss to a film studies audience for the first time, which felt🤩.
March 17, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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¡Hola, neurocurios@s! 😏🤩

🧠 ¡Tenemos algo increíble preparado para vosotros/as! 🧠

Este año, nos acompañan Mª Teresa Carrillo, Diego Redolar y Cynthia Cabañas @cynthiacabanas.bsky.social, para traerte lo mejor en Neurociencia y Salud.

¡Pronto compartimos más novedades! No querrás perdértelas. 🤓
March 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM