Looking at reality versus watching screens: Media professionalization effects on the spontaneous eyeblink rate.

Looking at reality versus watching screens: Media professionalization effects on the spontaneous eyeblink rate.

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This article explores whether there are differences in visual perception of narrative between theatrical performances and screens, and whether media professionalization affects visual perception.We created a live theatrical stimulus and three audio-visual stimuli (each one with a different video editing style) having the same narrative, and displayed them randomly to participants (20 media professionals and 20 non-media bob the boxcutter professionals).For media professionals, watching movies on screens evoked a significantly lower spontaneous blink sound anchor adj2 rate (SBR) than looking at theatrical performances.Media professionals presented a substantially lower SBR than non-media professionals when watching screens, and more surprisingly, also when seeing reality.According to our results, media professionals pay higher attention to both screens and the real world than do non-media professionals.