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  1. The afterlife of artists

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    James E Cutting

  2. How conversations are shot across the history of popular movies

    Article • Art & Perception, August 2023, Brill

    James E Cutting

  3. A summary of the book Movies On Our Minds

    Article • Projections, March 2023, Berghahn Journals

    James E Cutting

  4. Replies to comments about the book Movies On Our Minds

    Article • Projections, March 2023, Berghahn Journals

    James E Cutting

  5. Movies and Emotion

    Article • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, May 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Kacie Armstrong, James E Cutting

  6. Review of: "An integrative model of new product evaluation: A systematic investigation of perceived novelty and product evaluation in the movie industry"

    Article • March 2022, Qeios Ltd

    James E Cutting

  7. How do movies control where we look?

    Article • Art & Perception, December 2021, Brill

    James E Cutting

  8. Aesthetics, Technology, and Popular Movies

    Article • July 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    James E Cutting

  9. Movies shouldn't be too hard or too easy to understand

    Article • Projections, June 2020, Berghahn Journals

    James E Cutting

  10. The Mere Exposure Effect and Aesthetic Preference

    Article • February 2020, Taylor & Francis

    James E Cutting

  11. How many "acts" do popular movies have?

    Article • Cognitive Research Principles and Implications, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  12. Simplicity, Complexity, and Narration in Popular Movies

    Article • August 2019, JSTOR

    James E Cutting

  13. Sequences in popular cinema generate inconsistent event segmentation

    Article • Attention Perception & Psychophysics, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  14. Shaping Edits, Creating Fractals

    Article • Projections, March 2019, Berghahn Journals

    James E Cutting

  15. Temporal fractals in movies and mind

    Article • Cognitive Research Principles and Implications, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  16. The most important shot in movies is the reaction shot

    Article • Cognitive Science, January 2018, Wiley

    James E Cutting

  17. Cognition, Interaction, Design

    Article • KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  18. Events, movies, and aging.

    Article • Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, June 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  19. Mere Exposure and Aesthetic Realism: A Response to Bence Nanay

    Article • Leonardo, February 2017, The MIT Press

    James E Cutting

  20. Considering the filmmaker: Intensified continuity, narrative structure, and the Distancing-Embracing model

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2017, Cambridge University Press

    James E Cutting

  21. The evolution of pace in popular movies

    Article • Cognitive Research Principles and Implications, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  22. Narrative theory and the dynamics of popular movies

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  23. "Reading" faces in movies

    Article • Attention Perception & Psychophysics, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  24. Perception, as you make it

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Liad Mudrik, Professor Karl John Friston, James E Cutting

  25. RSVP at the movies: dynamic images are remembered better than static images when resources are limited

    Article • Visual Cognition, November 2015, Taylor & Francis

    James E Cutting

  26. Shot Durations, Shot Classes, and the Increased Pace of Popular Movies

    Article • Projections, January 2015, Berghahn Journals

    James E Cutting

  27. The Framing of Characters in Popular Movies

    Article • Art & Perception, January 2015, Brill

    James E Cutting

  28. Re‐Presentations of Space in Hollywood Movies: An Event‐Indexing Analysis

    Article • Cognitive Science, August 2014, Wiley

    James E Cutting

  29. How light and motion bathe the silver screen.

    Article • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, August 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  30. Event segmentation and seven types of narrative discontinuity in popular movies

    Article • Acta Psychologica, June 2014, Elsevier

    James E Cutting

  31. coloring the animated world: exploring human color perception and preference through the animated film kaitlin l. brunick and james e. cutting

    Article • March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    James E Cutting

  32. Event Segmentation and Seven Types of Narrative Discontinuity in Popular Movies

    Article • January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  33. Film Through the Human Visual System

    Article • November 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    James E Cutting

  34. Low-Level Features of Film: What They Are and Why We Would Be Lost Without Them

    Article • March 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    James E Cutting

  35. Re-Presentations of Space in Hollywood Movies

    Article • January 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  36. Mapping Narrative Space in Hollywood Film

    Article • Projections, January 2013, Berghahn Journals

    James E Cutting

  37. Gunnar Johansson, Events, and Biological Motion

    Article • December 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    James E Cutting

  38. Perceiving event dynamics and parsing Hollywood films.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, December 2012, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  39. A Window on Reality

    Article • Current Directions in Psychological Science, March 2012, SAGE Publications

    James E Cutting

  40. On Shot Lengths and Film Acts: A Revised View

    Article • Projections, January 2012, Berghahn Journals

    James E Cutting

  41. Ulric Neisser (1928–2012).

    Article • American Psychologist, January 2012, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  42. The Changing Poetics of the Dissolve in Hollywood Film

    Article • Empirical Studies of the Arts, July 2011, SAGE Publications

    James E Cutting

  43. Visual activity in Hollywood film: 1935 to 2005 and beyond.

    Article • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, May 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  44. How Act Structure Sculpts Shot Lengths and Shot Transitions in Hollywood Film

    Article • Projections, January 2011, Berghahn Journals

    James E Cutting

  45. Quicker, Faster, Darker: Changes in Hollywood Film over 75 Years

    Article • i-Perception, January 2011, SAGE Publications

    James E Cutting

  46. Attention and the Evolution of Hollywood Film

    Article • Psychological Science, February 2010, SAGE Publications

    James E Cutting

  47. The End of Art?

    Article • Empirical Studies of the Arts, July 2009, SAGE Publications

    James E Cutting

  48. Asynchronous neural integration: Compensation or computational tolerance and skill acquisition?

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, April 2008, Cambridge University Press

    James E Cutting

  49. Criteria for basic tastes and other sensory primaries

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, February 2008, Cambridge University Press

    James E Cutting

  50. Rhythms of Research

    Article • Psychological Science, December 2007, SAGE Publications

    James E Cutting

  51. Mere Exposure, Reproduction, and the Impressionist Canon

    Article • October 2007, JSTOR

    James E Cutting

  52. Impressionism and Its Canon.by cutting, james e

    Article • Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, March 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    James E Cutting

  53. An introduction to experimental methods for language researchers

    Article • January 2007, John Benjamins

    James E Cutting

  54. Eye Movements and an Object-Based Model of Heading Perception

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  55. Gustave Caillebotte, French Impressionism, and mere exposure

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, June 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  56. Reconceiving Perceptual Space

    Article • April 2003, The MIT Press

    James E Cutting

  57. Representing Motion in a Static Image: Constraints and Parallels in Art, Science, and Popular Culture

    Article • Perception, October 2002, SAGE Publications

    James E Cutting

  58. Walking, looking to the side, and taking curved paths

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, April 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  59. Invariants and cues

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, February 2002, Cambridge University Press

    James E Cutting

  60. Gaze-eccentricity effects on road position and steering.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied, January 2002, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  61. Perceiving motion while moving: How pairwise nominal invariants make optical flow cohere.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2002, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  62. Seeking one’s heading through eye movements

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, September 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  63. Heading judgments in minimal environments: The value of a heuristic when invariants are rare

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, September 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  64. Images, Imagination, and Movement: Pictorial Representations and Their Development in the Work of James Gibson

    Article • Perception, June 2000, SAGE Publications

    James E Cutting

  65. Accuracy, Scope, and Flexibility of Models

    Article • Journal of Mathematical Psychology, March 2000, Elsevier

    James E Cutting

  66. Walking, Looking to the Side, and Taking Curved Paths

    Article • January 2000, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  67. Palmer's Vision

    Article • The American Journal of Psychology, January 2000, University of Illinois Press

    James E Cutting

  68. A Probabilistic Model for Recovering Camera Translation

    Article • Computer Vision and Image Understanding, December 1999, Elsevier

    James E Cutting

  69. Human heading judgments and object-based motion information

    Article • Vision Research, March 1999, Elsevier

    James E Cutting

  70. Where we Go With a Little Good Information

    Article • Psychological Science, January 1999, SAGE Publications

    James E Cutting

  71. Comparing effects of the horizontal-vertical illusion on grip scaling and judgment: Relative versus absolute, not perception versus action.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 1999, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  72. Information from the World around Us

    Article • January 1998, Elsevier

    James E Cutting

  73. Pictures and Their Special Status in Perceptual and Cognitive Inquiry

    Article • January 1998, Elsevier

    James E Cutting

  74. Heading and path information from retinal flow in naturalistic environments

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, April 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  75. How the eye measures reality and virtual reality

    Article • Behavior Research Methods Instruments &amp Computers, March 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  76. Wayfinding from multiple sources of local information in retinal flow.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, October 1996, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  77. How we avoid collisions with stationary and moving objects.

    Article • Psychological Review, October 1995, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  78. Perceiving Layout and Knowing Distances

    Article • January 1995, Elsevier

    James E Cutting

  79. Wayfinding, displacements, and mental maps: Velocity fields are not typically used to determine one's aimpoint.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 1995, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  80. Perceptual Artifacts and Phenomena: Gibson's Role in the 20th Century

    Article • January 1993, Elsevier

    James E Cutting

  81. Selectivity, scope, and simplicity of models: A lesson from fitting judgments of perceived depth.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 1992, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  82. Wayfinding on foot from information in retinal, not optical, flow.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 1992, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  83. On the efficacy of cinema, or what the visual system did not evolve to do

    Article • June 1991, Taylor & Francis

    James E Cutting

  84. Four Ways to Reject Directed Perception

    Article • Ecological Psychology, March 1991, Taylor & Francis

    James E Cutting

  85. Compensation is unnecessary for the perception of faces in slanted pictures

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, January 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  86. Masking the motions of human gait

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, July 1988, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  87. Additivity, subadditivity, and the use of visual information: A reply to Massaro (1988).

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 1988, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  88. Affine distortions of pictorial space: Some predictions of Goldstein (1987) that La Gournerie (1859) might have made.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 1988, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  89. Minimodularity and the perception of layout.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 1988, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  90. On cross ratios and motion perception: A reply to Niall

    Article • Journal of Mathematical Psychology, December 1987, Elsevier

    James E Cutting

  91. Fractal curves and complexity

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, July 1987, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  92. Perception and Information

    Article • Annual Review of Psychology, January 1987, Annual Reviews

    James E Cutting

  93. Rigidity in cinema seen from the front row, side aisle.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 1987, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  94. The shape and psychophysics of cinematic space

    Article • Behavior Research Methods Instruments &amp Computers, November 1986, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  95. Comments on Generating Caricatures

    Article • Leonardo, January 1986, JSTOR

    James E Cutting

  96. Visual Flow and Direction of Locomotion

    Article • Science, March 1985, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    James E Cutting

  97. Gibson, Representation, and Belief

    Article • Contemporary Psychology, March 1985, Portico

    James E Cutting

  98. Reflections on surfaces: A cross-disciplinary reply to Stevens.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, June 1984, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  99. Infant sensitivity to figural coherence in biomechanical motions

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, April 1984, Elsevier

    James E Cutting

  100. Three gradients and the perception of flat and curved surfaces.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 1984, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  101. Four assumptions about invariance in perception.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 1983, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  102. Plucks and bows are categorically perceived, sometimes

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, September 1982, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  103. Blowing in the wind: Perceiving structure in trees and bushes

    Article • Cognition, July 1982, Elsevier

    James E Cutting

  104. The minimum principle and the perception of absolute, common, and relative motions

    Article • Cognitive Psychology, April 1982, Elsevier

    James E Cutting

  105. Two Ecological Perspectives: Gibson vs. Shaw and Turvey

    Article • The American Journal of Psychology, January 1982, University of Illinois Press

    James E Cutting

  106. Bars and Stripes Forever: Fourier Analysis and Vision

    Article • Contemporary Psychology, October 1981, Portico

    James E Cutting

  107. Six tenets for event perception

    Article • Cognition, July 1981, Elsevier

    James E Cutting

  108. Coding theory adapted to gait perception.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, February 1981, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  109. Gait Perception as an Example of How We May Perceive Events

    Article • January 1981, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  110. The Role of Speech in Language

    Article • American Speech, January 1981, JSTOR

    James E Cutting

  111. Cross-series adaptation using song and string

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, November 1980, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  112. Perceiving the centroid of curvilinearly bounded rolling shapes

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, September 1980, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  113. An Invariant for Wheel-Generated Motions and the Logic of its Determination

    Article • Perception, August 1980, SAGE Publications

    James E Cutting

  114. Sign language and spoken language

    Article • Nature, April 1980, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  115. Asymmetries for Ameslan handshapes and other forms in signers and nonsigners

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, November 1979, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  116. Perceiving the centroid of configurations on a rolling wheel

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, September 1979, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  117. Perception of wheel-generated motions.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 1979, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  118. Perceiving the geometry of age in a human face

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, November 1978, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  119. Recognizing the gender of walkers from point-lights mounted on ankles: Some second thoughts

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, September 1978, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  120. Generation of Synthetic Male and Female Walkers through Manipulation of a Biomechanical Invariant

    Article • Perception, August 1978, SAGE Publications

    James E Cutting

  121. Temporal and spatial factors in gait perception that influence gender recognition

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, March 1978, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  122. A program to generate synthetic walkers as dynamic point-light displays

    Article • Behavior Research Methods, January 1978, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  123. A biomechanical invariant for gait perception.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 1978, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  124. Recognizing the sex of a walker from a dynamic point-light display

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, November 1977, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  125. Recognizing friends by their walk: Gait perception without familiarity cues

    Article • Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, May 1977, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  126. Categorical perception of nonspeech sounds by 2-month-old infants

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, January 1977, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  127. On the relationship between intercategory and intracategory semantic structure

    Article • Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, November 1976, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  128. Perceptual Categories for Musiclike Sounds: Implications for Theories of Speech Perception

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, August 1976, SAGE Publications

    James E Cutting

  129. Discrimination of intensity differences carried on formant transitions varying in extent and duration

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, March 1976, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  130. Units of speech perception: Phoneme and syllable

    Article • Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, February 1976, Elsevier

    James E Cutting

  131. Discrimination functions predicted from categories in speech and music

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, January 1976, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  132. Auditory and linguistic processes in speech perception: Inferences from six fusions in dichotic listening.

    Article • Psychological Review, January 1976, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  133. Processing two dimensions of nonspeech stimuli: The auditory-phonetic distinction reconsidered.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 1976, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  134. Aspects of phonological fusion.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, May 1975, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  135. Perception of temporal order in vowel sequences with and without formant transitions.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, May 1975, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting

  136. The perception of stop-liquid clusters in phonological fusion

    Article • Journal of Phonetics, April 1975, Elsevier

    James E Cutting

  137. Orienting Tasks Affect Recall Performance More Than Subjective Impressions of Ability to Recall

    Article • Psychological Reports, February 1975, SAGE Publications

    James E Cutting

  138. Hearing with the Third Ear: Dichotic Perception of a Melody without Monaural Familiarity Cues

    Article • Science, October 1974, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    James E Cutting

  139. Different speech-processing mechanisms can be reflected in the results of discrimination and dichotic listening tasks

    Article • Brain and Language, October 1974, Elsevier

    James E Cutting

  140. Categories and boundaries in speech and music*

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, May 1974, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  141. Two left-hemisphere mechanisms in speech perception

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, May 1974, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Cutting

  142. Why our stimuli look as they do.

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    James E Cutting