Leitmotivik in der Filmmusik

The influence of film music on the perception and experience of the visual worlds shown in a film can hardly be overestimated. But how can this effect, which film musicals leitmotifs exerts on both visual attention and emotional experience during multimodal film reception, be researched? To what extent do they direct visual attention, influence the emotional evaluation of film scenes and physiological emotional responses?
In individual case studies of three film excerpts from commercial feature films, Henning Albrecht makes this complex interaction tangible and comprehensible in elaborate AOI analyses ("areas of interest") using modern eye-tracking methods.