Engaging Audiences provides an insightful introduction to spectatorship from the perspective of cognitive studies. Using performances of several plays and a wide array of scientific evidence, McConachie examines the dynamics of conscious attention, mental concepts, empathy, emot…
'Engaging Audiences' asks what cognitive science can teach scholars of theatre studies about spectator response in the theatre. The author introduces insights from neuroscience and evolutionary theory to examine the dynamics of conscious attention, empathy and memory in theatre …
Engaging Audiences provides an insightful introduction to spectatorship from the perspective of cognitive studies. Using performances of several plays and a wide array of scientific evidence, McConachie examines the dynamics of conscious attention, mental concepts, empathy, emot…