Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image

moving images stimulate our senses, arouse our emotions, provoke our intellect, and influence us in ways we may not even recognize. what gives them such command over us? how do they engage us? why do they entrance us? the society for cognitive studies of the moving image (scsmi) is an interdisciplinary organization made up of scholars interested in cognitive, philosophical, aesthetic, neurophysiological, and evolutionary-psychological approaches to the analysis of film and other moving-image media. through exchange, debate, and collaboration among moving image theorists, historians, analysts, philosophers, scientists and artists, scsmi promotes research into moving image media and the ways in which such media reflect, shape, and are shaped by the human mind. the society supports dialogue in all directions, so that every represented discipline may learn from the others. "projections”, the scsmi interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, explores the way in which the mind experiences, unde