Picked by Aeon
Why our brains don't explode at film cuts
A video essay on why our brains accept film cuts so easily, despite humans never seeing anything like them before cinema.
A fascinating look at the brain science behind something we never notice while watching movies.
For millennia, we’d never seen anything like film cuts. How do we process them so easily?
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