Paul Taberham is Associate Professor in Film and Animation Studies at the Arts University Bournemouth, UK. He is the author of Lessons in Perception: The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist (Berghahn, 2018) and the forthcoming Animated Visions: Theory, History and Aesthetics (Berghahn, 2024). He is also the co-editor of Cognitive Media Theory (Routledge, 2014) with Ted Nannicelli, and Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital (Routledge, 2019) with Miriam Harris and Lilly Husbands. Paul is a fellow of the Society of Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, and on the editorial board for Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

Catalina Iricinschi is Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at Franklin & Marshall College. Research interests include event segmentation in film narrative, eye tracking in narrative processing, narrative of belonging and displacement, place and space depiction in film narrative, and Romanian cinema. She has published in journals such as Cognitive Science, Projections: The Journal for Movie and Mind, I-Perception, along with the edited anthologies Space in Language and the forthcoming Narrative, Media and Cognition.