ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews research being carried out on editing and its effects. It outlines our theoretical framework, the interest of cognitive perception psychologists in these issues gained momentum at the end of the 1970s as a result of the publication of the first works by Julian Hochberg. Studies by Tim Smith and Mark Seddon have focused on linking the perception of continuity with the perception of time and other phenomena. This line of research was developed by Gery d'Ydewalle, Roger Penn and Robert Kraft and concerns measuring the effect of editing cuts by manipulating messages' various structural patterns. Annie Lang examines the differential effects of two different types of cuts on attention, capacity and audio and visual memory for information contained in television messages. Research into audiovisual redundancy analyzes the informational correspondence between video and audio tracks—in other words, how the information between both channels is coupled and synchronized.
