At this stage of your career, what＇s important to you？ What can audiences expect from you？ I keep telling my students that we should really do stunts ourselves rather than having a stuntman stand-in, because I like...At this stage of your career, what＇s important to you？ What can audiences expect from you？ I keep telling my students that we should really do stunts ourselves rather than having a stuntman stand-in, because I like everything to be real for the audience.展开更多
电影《Hilary and Jackie》中,两位主演Hilary与Jackie各自所演奏的乐器长笛与大提琴是影片的核心喻象,它们与姐妹俩的性格、命运构成了一种微妙的同构关系,同时也与剧情结构密切呼应。这种喻象的同构作用有着中国艺术理论及西方格式塔...电影《Hilary and Jackie》中,两位主演Hilary与Jackie各自所演奏的乐器长笛与大提琴是影片的核心喻象,它们与姐妹俩的性格、命运构成了一种微妙的同构关系,同时也与剧情结构密切呼应。这种喻象的同构作用有着中国艺术理论及西方格式塔心理学的共同支撑,这一点也能够从乐器的特质与性格上得到说明。它很好地实现了电影元素对整部影片的强化作用,同时又将电影音乐的功效再一次地展示了出来。展开更多
Identifying perceptual thresholds is critical for understanding the mechanisms that underlie signalevolution. Using computer-animated stimuli, we examined visual speed sensitivity in the Jackydragon Amphibolurus muric...Identifying perceptual thresholds is critical for understanding the mechanisms that underlie signalevolution. Using computer-animated stimuli, we examined visual speed sensitivity in the Jackydragon Amphibolurus muricatus, a species that makes extensive use of rapid motor patterns in so-cial communication. First, focal lizards were tested in discrimination trials using random-dot kine-matograms displaying combinations of speed, coherence, and direction. Second, we measuredsubject lizards＇ ability to predict the appearance of a secondary reinforcer （1 of 3 differentcomputer-generated animations of invertebrates： cricket, spider, and mite） based on the directionof movement of a field of drifting dots by following a set of behavioural responses （e.g., orientingresponse, latency to respond） to our virtual stimuli. We found an effect of both speed and coher-ence, as well as an interaction between these 2 factors on the perception of moving stimuli.Overall, our results showed that Jacky dragons have acute sensitivity to high speeds. We then em-ployed an optic flow analysis to match the performance to ecologically relevant motion. Our resultssuggest that the Jacky dragon visual system may have been shaped to detect fast motion. Thispre-existing sensitivity may have constrained the evolution of conspecific displays. In contrast,Jacky dragons may have difficulty in detecting the movement of ambush predators, such as snakesand of some invertebrate prey. Our study also demonstrates the potential of the computer-animated stimuli technique for conducting nonintrusive tests to explore motion range and sensitiv-ity in a visually mediated species.展开更多
文摘At this stage of your career, what＇s important to you？ What can audiences expect from you？ I keep telling my students that we should really do stunts ourselves rather than having a stuntman stand-in, because I like everything to be real for the audience.
文摘电影《Hilary and Jackie》中,两位主演Hilary与Jackie各自所演奏的乐器长笛与大提琴是影片的核心喻象,它们与姐妹俩的性格、命运构成了一种微妙的同构关系,同时也与剧情结构密切呼应。这种喻象的同构作用有着中国艺术理论及西方格式塔心理学的共同支撑,这一点也能够从乐器的特质与性格上得到说明。它很好地实现了电影元素对整部影片的强化作用,同时又将电影音乐的功效再一次地展示了出来。
文摘Identifying perceptual thresholds is critical for understanding the mechanisms that underlie signalevolution. Using computer-animated stimuli, we examined visual speed sensitivity in the Jackydragon Amphibolurus muricatus, a species that makes extensive use of rapid motor patterns in so-cial communication. First, focal lizards were tested in discrimination trials using random-dot kine-matograms displaying combinations of speed, coherence, and direction. Second, we measuredsubject lizards＇ ability to predict the appearance of a secondary reinforcer （1 of 3 differentcomputer-generated animations of invertebrates： cricket, spider, and mite） based on the directionof movement of a field of drifting dots by following a set of behavioural responses （e.g., orientingresponse, latency to respond） to our virtual stimuli. We found an effect of both speed and coher-ence, as well as an interaction between these 2 factors on the perception of moving stimuli.Overall, our results showed that Jacky dragons have acute sensitivity to high speeds. We then em-ployed an optic flow analysis to match the performance to ecologically relevant motion. Our resultssuggest that the Jacky dragon visual system may have been shaped to detect fast motion. Thispre-existing sensitivity may have constrained the evolution of conspecific displays. In contrast,Jacky dragons may have difficulty in detecting the movement of ambush predators, such as snakesand of some invertebrate prey. Our study also demonstrates the potential of the computer-animated stimuli technique for conducting nonintrusive tests to explore motion range and sensitiv-ity in a visually mediated species.
