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Cognitive intersections: Meeting Narrative, Semiotics, and Neuroscience in Video Game Characters
- 1. Cognitive Intersections: Meeting Narrative, Semiotics, and Neuroscience in Video Game Characters Cody Mejeur Department of English Michigan State University mejeurco@msu.edu @cmejeur
- 2. A Question… Or Two. What is the relationship between the cognitive and semiotics? Addition: What is the relationship between the cognitive, semiotics, and narrative? Focus: Video Game Characters
- 3. Semiotics and Narrative Signs in games (including characters) come together Play between them is narrative Question of scale? Analysis of narrative (particularly close reading/analysis) requires focus on particular signs and groups of signs Extract out to larger structures Always scripted and emergent qualities
- 4. Helpful Comparison: Pyramid of Popular Formula
- 5. Borrowing…
- 6. The Problem of Structure Does structure actually match experience? What do structures miss or exclude? Always building yet another model? What would narrative look like without structure? Narrative as less of a structure, system, taxonomy, etc., more of a force or cognitive process? Less what it is, more what it does? Can we design structures that are more fluid, dynamic, adaptable, experiential? A Thought Experiment
- 8. Semiotics and Cognition Cognitive Semiotics and Cognitive Linguistics Focus on neuroscience of individual letters, sounds, words Expanding to compound words, clauses, phrases, sentences. How does player use/interact with it? Communication? Constructing a Narrative? Do signs accumulate? Change over time according to scripted and emergent relations
- 10. Signs and Players All signs in games, especially characters, have some relationship to the player Signs are never fully stable Always moving, changing Limits to change, sign must cohere Force relations within and between signs
- 11. Speaking of Player Perception… Narrative and Cognition Signs coming together in narrative Difficulty of studying narrative via neuroscience Assumption that activity or interface=narrative? Challenging the Narrative/Play Distinction Theory? Jenkins, Ryan, Walsh, Prince Degrees of Narrativity, Embedded/Emergent/Experiential Narrative Social Scientific Methods? Interview players Forums research Problem of sample sizes-is this inevitable?
- 12. Designing a fMRI experiment Test distinction/relationship between narrative and play Problem: Controls, Isolating “Narrative” Choice: Use First Person games (shooters, exploration, etc.) Avoid character entanglements Mirror/Mimic Player POV/Consciousness Question of interface Alexander Galloway–what assumptions are built into the interface? What are the narrative and cognitive implications of the interface?
- 13. Screening Questionnaire Control for experience, predisposition toward or against narrative fMRI Play MRI compatible controller Eye-tracking, video recording Play segments of three games: Halo, Half-Life 2, Bioshock. Similar play, different narrative configurations. Post Scanner Questionnaire and Oral Interview Modified Game Experience Questionnaire, Eindhoven University of Technology Steps to Experiment
- 14. Final Suggestions/Questions Bringing together Semiotics, Narrative, and Cognition (inc. Cognitive Neuroscience) can help us understand video game characters and narrative meaning-making in games The reverse is also true: games can change our concepts and theories Challenge us to rethink narrative and our reliance on structure To what extent is this possible? What are the benefits and limitations of neuroscience? What does the study of game narrative look like when it moves past model-making?