Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of Psychology, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

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Johansson, Fredrik (2012). Filmljudets funktioner i dramafilm – En audio-visuell analys av filmen The King´s Speech. Examensuppsats inom Ljudproduktion, Högskolan Dalarna, Akademin för språk och medier, Falun. I denna uppsats undersöktes filmljudet i dramafilmen The King´s Speech. Detta för att ta reda på vilka funktioner filmljudet fyller i de valda sekvenserna ur nämnda film, samt hur ljudet är placerat i filmens flerkanalsmix. Filmen granskades med hjälp av en audio-visuell analys. Denna metod går ut på att ljudet och bilden undersöks separat, för att sedan åter kombineras och analyseras som helhet. Den audio-visuella analysmetod som använts kommer från ljudteoretikern Michel Chion, och kallas Masking. Resultatet av den audio-visuella analysen pekade mot att ljudets huvudsakliga funktioner var att skapa en realistisk skildring av karaktärer och omgivningar, skapa en känsla av närvaro, samt att skapa och bibehålla olika perspektiv i den narrativa världen. Den stora majoriteten av ljud visade sig vara placerade i centerkanalen, medan främst ickediegetisk musik och ambiensljud var placerade i front- och surroundkanalerna. Detta kanalanvändande tycktes gynna de funna funktionerna, främst genom att bidra till känslan av närvaro och realism, genom att omsluta filmpubliken med ambienta ljud.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2003. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-105).

The present investigation was designed to answer the question of whether or not schizophrenia spectrum members exhibit increased susceptibility to perceptual and conceptual backward masking effects when processing complex stimulus events. Introductory psychology students were screened through the use of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) to obtain 3 groups of subjects having inflation-free, 4-9, and 2-7-8 profiles. Immediate memory for pictures was assessed as a function errors in all of the groups for both correct and incorrectof mask type (picture, pattern, and noise), luminance (high vs. low), and mask delay (0 vs. 300 ms). No significant differences were found between the groups in their ability to recognize a picture in the absence of a mask. The frequency of mask target trials was discovered to be nonsignificant. Analysis of subjects’ number of correct target identifications as a function of group, mask type, luminance level and delay of mask revealed significant main effects for luminance and for delay of mask. However, no factor involving the group variable reached statistical significance. / Department of Psychological Science

Discrimination thresholds were obtained during a delayed spatial frequency discrimination task. In Experiment 1, we found that presentation of a mask 3 s before onset of a reference Gabor patch caused selective interference in a subsequent discrimination task. However, a 10 s interval abolished this masking effect. In Experiment 2, the mask was associated with a second spatial frequency discrimination task so that a representation of the mask had to be coded into short-term perceptual memory. The presence of this second discrimination task now caused similar interference effects on the primary discrimination task at both the 3 s and 10 s ISI conditions. The different results from these two experiments are best explained by a two-step perceptual memory mechanism. The results also provide further insight into the conditions under which stimulus representations are shared between the perceptual and memory domains.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2008. / Title from title screen (site viewed Mar. 10, 2009). PDF text: xvi, 233 p. : ill. ; 4 Mb. UMI publication number: AAT 3330703. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, March, 1998. / Title from PDF t.p.