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Engagement in video and audio narratives: contrasting self-report and physiological measures.
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- Seeing Is Feeling: How Aphantasia Alters Emotional Engagement With Stories.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- The impact of podcast-based interventions on mental health: A systematic scoping review.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
- Narrative predicts cardiac synchrony in audiences.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Physiological Signals and Affect as Predictors of Advertising Engagement.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Measuring real-time cognitive engagement in remote audiences.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Audience immersion: validating attentional and physiological measures against self-report.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2023Article
- Higher levels of narrativity lead to similar patterns of posterior EEG activity across individuals.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Developmental differences in the perception of naturalistic human movements.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Emotional Responses to the Visual Patterns of Urban Streets: Evidence from Physiological and Subjective Indicators.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Neural signatures of attentional engagement during narratives and its consequences for event memory.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Audio Described vs. Audiovisual Porn: Cortisol, Heart Rate and Engagement in Visually Impaired vs. Sighted Participants.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Stories play a fundamental role in human culture. They provide a mechanism for sharing cultural identity, imparting knowledge, revealing beliefs, reinforcing social bonds and providing entertainment that is central to all human societies. Here we investigated the extent to which the delivery medium of a story (audio or visual) affected self-reported and physiologically measured engagement with the narrative. Although participants self-reported greater involvement for watching video relative to listening to auditory scenes, stronger physiological responses were recorded for auditory stories. Sensors placed at their wrists showed higher and more variable heart rates, greater electrodermal activity, and even higher body temperatures. We interpret these findings as evidence that the stories were more cognitively and emotionally engaging at a physiological level when presented in an auditory format. This may be because listening to a story, rather than watching a video, is a more active process of co-creation, and that this imaginative process in the listener's mind is detectable on the skin at their wrist.
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