The lack of a top-down effect on eye movements despite large comprehension differences was termed the "Tyranny of Film".
However, despite these large comprehension differences, similar to our previous study that used a very different film clip (Loschky et al., 2015), we found only modest and targeted differences in eye movements.
A large comprehension network was found across bilateral Superior Temporal Sulcus (STS), Middle Temporal Gyrus (MTG and Superior Temporall (STS) bilaterally, in left Inferior Frontal Gyrus (IFG), left Precentral Gyrus, and Supplementary Motor Area SMAandand pre-SMA.
In an age of the sentence fetish, Greenwell thinks and writes, as Woolf or Sebald do, in larger units of comprehension; so consummate is the pacing and control, it seems as if he understands this section to be a single long sentence.
Overall, the manipulation created large differences in comprehension, but only produced modest differences in eye movements.
They found that participants had large differences in comprehension due to their context condition, but there were relatively weak effects of comprehension on eye movements.
Clearly, fewer people are looking at the same places at the same times in Touch of Evil than in Moonraker, yet we still find few effects of the large differences in comprehension (as manipulated by context) on eye movements.
It's Robert Frost's "Good fences make good neighbours" writ large, without the comprehension that the whole point of Mending Wall is that approach is all bullshit.
Overall, the research showed that "in terms of textual devices, results showed that emoticons had a larger influence on both comprehension and emotional impact than punctual marks".
By now the YouTube video universe is, like the real one, large and complex beyond comprehension, and the repercussions for video art are equally hard to fathom.
