For research on the semantics of directionality in films of the Mexican Revolution I have been looking for research into the meaning of directional movement and pointing. Some general remarks on the effect of panning etc aside, I have not come across relevant research. But that may well be due to the fact that I am largely unfamiliar with specialised research within the field of Psychology. As far as I can see, publications on the psychology of movement focus primarily on how the human mind processes movement but do not engage with whether or how specific types of movement are perceived as semantic in themselves. These are some of the questions I would like to be able to answer:
I would be grateful for any pointers.
You will probably find answers to some of your questions in the following publications (and if not, if may be useful to get in touch with Anne Maass, who has supervised much research about this issue):
Maass, A., & Russo, A. (2003). Directional Bias in the Mental Representation of Spatial Events Nature or Culture?. Psychological Science, 14(4), 296-301.
Maass, A., Pagani, D., & Berta, E. (2007). How beautiful is the goal and how violent is the fistfight? Spatial bias in the interpretation of human behavior. Social Cognition, 25(6), 833-852.
Santiago, J., Lupáñez, J., Pérez, E., & Funes, M. J. (2007). Time (also) flies from left to right. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14(3), 512-516.
Spalek, T. M., & Hammad, S. (2005). The left-to-right bias in inhibition of return is due to the direction of reading. Psychological Science, 16(1), 15-18.
Dobel, C., Diesendruck, G., & Bölte, J. (2007). How Writing System and Age Influence Spatial Representations of Actions A Developmental, Cross-Linguistic Study. Psychological Science, 18(6), 487-491.
A bit more neurophysiological and neuropsychological, but from an evolutionary standpoint:
Corballis, anything on line bisection,
on mirror recognition,
on the social and evolutionary acquisition of the ability to communicate from gestures
Especially for you point 2.
by Corballis, I meant Michael Corballis (New Zealand)
Also, in the same neuro-line, works on mirror neurons by Umiltà & coll on the way people recongize the intention of a given gesture with an object, and its possible meaning,
Do not find lost in the huge repertoire of literature on mirror neurons. Just for you to know , that it is likely something tehre could be of help for your work. At list as a quote.
All the best,
Paola, many thanks for these helpful suggestions. It is challenging and exciting to reach out into disciplines about which I know next to nothing (actually: nothing at all).
You need to employ a centered moving average (inverse) to the data sequence.
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