By Bettina Bläsing,Martin Puttke,Thomas Schack
Dance has regularly been an incredible point of all human cultures, and the research of human circulation and motion has develop into a subject of accelerating relevance during the last decade, bringing dance into the focal point of the cognitive sciences. This e-book discusses the wide variety of interrelations among physique postures and physique activities as conceptualised in dance with belief, psychological processing and motion making plans.
The quantity brings jointly cognitive scientists, psychologists, neuroscientists, choreographers, and ballet academics, to debate very important concerns relating to dance and cognition. First, scientists introduce principles that provide various views on human circulate and as a result might be utilized to bop. Secondly, execs from the area of dance have their say, reporting on how their inventive and pedagogical paintings pertains to cognition and studying. eventually, researchers with own hyperlinks to the dance global exhibit how neurocognitive equipment are utilized to learning diverse points with regards to dance.
This ebook is appropriate for college students and pros from the fields of psychology, neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, game psychology and recreation technology, stream technology, motor keep watch over, motor improvement, kinesiology, dance, choreography, dance schooling and dance treatment; to lecturers who are looking to train dance to scholars of any age.
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