Semiótica audiovisual y neurociencia cognitiva. El proyecto de la neurofilmología y la cuestión de la experiencia temporal

This article presents a research framework based on the dialogue between audiovisual semiotics and neurocognitive sciences called Neurofilmology. Neurofilmology is an update of interpretative semiotics and intends to outline a model of the audiovisual viewing experience that considers the embodied relationships between a viewer-organism and its environment. This model is elaborated at a meta-empirical level by confronting and blending the empirical results from semiotic analyses and neuropsychological experiments. In particular, the article illustrates an ongoing neurofilmological research devoted to the temporal experience in viewing audiovisuals. The experience of time does not depend on abstract internal clocks but is instead linked to the living and lived coordination of different series of movements performed or perceived by the subject. Since these series multiply within the audiovisual vision compared to ordinary experience, this perspective explains the particularities of the viewer’s temporal experience and makes cinema a particular laboratory of temporality.