Dancing in Your Head: An Interdisciplinary Review

Frontiers in Psychology

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Andrea Zardi¹  Edoardo Giovanni Carlotti¹  Alessandro Pontremoli¹  Rosalba Morese² 

[1] Department of Humanities, School of Human Sciences, University of Turin;Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, Università della Svizzera Italiana;Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Public Health, Università della Svizzera Italiana

关键词: dance;    mirror neurons;    neuroaesthetics;    motor imagery;    embodied simulation;    action observation;    action understanding;    motor expertise;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.649121

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The aim of this review is to highlight the most relevant contributions on dance in neuroscientific research. Neuroscience has analyzed the mirror system through neuroimaging techniques, testing its role in imitative learning, in the recognition of other people's emotions and especially in the understanding of the motor behavior of others. This review analyses the literature related to five general areas: (I) breakthrough studies on the mirror system, and subsequent studies on its involvement in the prediction, the execution, the control of movement, and in the process of “embodied simulation” within the intersubjective relationship; (II) research focused on investigating the neural networks in action observation, and the neural correlates of motor expertise highlighted by comparative studies on different dance styles; (III) studies dealing with the viewer's experience of dance according to specific dance repertoires, which revealed the relevance of choreographic choices for aesthetic appreciation; (IV) studies focused on dance as an aesthetic experience, where both the emotional and the cultural dimension play a significant role, and whose investigation paves the way to further progress both in empirical and in phenomenological research methodologies; (V) collaboration-based experiments, in which neuroscientists and choreographers developed expertise-related questions, especially focusing on the multiple phenomena that underlie motor imagery.

【 授权许可】

CC BY