The Neurocognition of Dance: Mind, Movement and Motor Skills

by BlSsing; Bettina

• ISBN13: 9781848720244
• ISBN10: 1848720246
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-25
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

This book discusses the wide range of interrelations between body postures and movements as conceptualised in dance with perception, mental processing and action planning.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction: Towards a neurocognitive science of dance-two worlds approaching or two approaches to the same world of movement?	p. 1
The science perspective	p. 9
Building blocks and architecture of dance	p. 11
Shall we dance? Action researchers and dancers can move together	p. 41
Getting cognitive	p. 53
The dancer's memory: Expertise and cognitive structures in dance	p. 75
The dance perspective	p. 99
"Learning to dance means learning to think!"	p. 101
Searching for that "other land of dance": The phases in developing a choreography	p. 115
Overcoming the dyslexia barrier: The role of kinesthetic stimuli in the teaching of spelling	p. 123
Neurocognitive studies of dance	p. 151
Neural mechanisms for seeing dance	p. 153
Building a dance in the human brain: Insights from expert and novice dancers	p. 177
Research and choreography: Merging dance and cognitive neuroscience	p. 203
Author index	p. 235
Subject index	p. 243
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