22 results on '"Vicary, Staci"'
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2. Self-compassion and Mental Health in Australian Women Who Have Experienced Pregnancy Loss.
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Maagh, Lea C. S., Quinlan, Elly, Vicary, Staci, Schilder, Suzanne, and Carey, Christine
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COMPETENCY assessment (Law) ,PSYCHOTHERAPY ,PSYCHOLOGICAL distress ,QUESTIONNAIRES ,SELF-compassion ,PREGNANT women ,PERINATAL death ,PREGNANCY outcomes ,LONGITUDINAL method ,WOMEN'S health ,MENTAL depression ,REGRESSION analysis - Abstract
Mental health challenges are common during the perinatal period, particularly following pregnancy loss. This longitudinal study investigates the role of self-compassion in the mental health of perinatal women having previously experienced (n = 45) or not having experienced (n = 123) pregnancy loss. Archival data was utilised to compare levels of perinatal depression, psychological distress, and self-compassion for women receiving psychological therapy at session one and session six. Results indicated that both participant groups reported similar levels on all variables at baseline. There were significant increases in self-compassion and decreases in perinatal depression and psychological distress after six sessions of therapy for both groups. A regression showed changes in self-compassion following six sessions of therapy was predictive of psychological distress, particularly for women who reported pregnancy loss. Self-compassion may represent a viable intervention for psychological distress in a perinatal population particularly following pregnancy loss. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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3. Movement synchrony among dance performers predicts brain synchrony among dance spectators
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Orgs, Guido, primary, Vicary, Staci, additional, Sperling, Matthias, additional, Richardson, Daniel C., additional, and Williams, Adrian Lloyd, additional
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- 2024
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4. Exploring collective experience in watching dance through intersubject correlation and functional connectivity of fMRI brain activity
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Pollick, Frank E., primary, Vicary, Staci, additional, Noble, Katie, additional, Kim, Naree, additional, Jang, Seonhee, additional, and Stevens, Catherine J., additional
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- 2018
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5. Self-compassion and Mental Health in Australian Women Who Have Experienced Pregnancy Loss
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Maagh, Lea C. S., primary, Quinlan, Elly, additional, Vicary, Staci, additional, Schilder, Suzanne, additional, and Carey, Christine, additional
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- 2023
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6. Recognition of dance-like actions: Memory for static posture or dynamic movement?
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Vicary, Staci A., Robbins, Rachel A., Calvo-Merino, Beatriz, and Stevens, Catherine J.
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- 2014
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7. Chapter 17 - Exploring collective experience in watching dance through intersubject correlation and functional connectivity of fMRI brain activity
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Pollick, Frank E., Vicary, Staci, Noble, Katie, Kim, Naree, Jang, Seonhee, and Stevens, Catherine J.
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- 2018
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8. The choreography of group affiliation
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von Zimmermann, Jorina, Vicary, Staci, Sperling, Matthias, Orgs, Guido, Richardson, Daniel C., and HASH(0x7fa45774c780)
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When two people move in synchrony, they become more social. Yet, it is not clear how this effect scales up to larger numbers of people. Does a group need to move in unison to affiliate, in what we term unitary synchrony; or does affiliation arise from distributed coordination, patterns of coupled movements between individual members of a group? We developed choreographic tasks that manipulated movement synchrony without explicitly instructing groups to move in uni- son. Wrist accelerometers measured group movement dynamics and we applied cross recurrence analysis to distinguish the temporal features of emergent unitary synchrony (simultaneous move- ment) and distributed coordination (coupled movement). Participants’ unitary synchrony did not predict pro-social behavior, but their distributed coordination predicted how much they liked each other, how they felt toward their group, and how much they conformed to each other’s opinions. The choreography of affiliation arises from distributed coordination of group movement dynamics.
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- 2018
9. Supplemental material for Audiovisual Aesthetics of Sound and Movement in Contemporary Dance
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Howlin, Claire, Vicary, Staci, and Orgs, Guido
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200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified ,FOS: Other humanities - Abstract
Supplemental Material for Audiovisual Aesthetics of Sound and Movement in Contemporary Dance by Claire Howlin, Staci Vicary and Guido Orgs in Empirical Studies of the Arts
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- 2018
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10. The Impact of Soundtrack Congruency on the Aesthetic Experience of Contemporary Dance: Exploring Aesthetic Interaction in Terms of Arousal and Enjoyment Ratings in Three Audio Settings
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Howlin, Claire, Orgs, Guido, Vicary, Staci, and HASH(0x7fa455a38f58)
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Often music is used to emphasize particular dance gestures, or dance can be used to illustrate particular passages of music. While each form relies on different sensory modalities, previous studies have demonstrated the ability to deduce the common structures between music and dance, even when each form is presented independently. However, from an aesthetic perspective, music and dance are not always used congruently, to emphasize or complement each other, but are sometimes used in competition, or conflict with each other to emphasize the narrative (Fogelsanger & Afanador, 2006). With this deliberate shift in congruency between stimuli, this begs the questions as to whether congruence between stimuli enhances aesthetic judgements for contemporary pieces, in line with the congruence association model. This study aims to empirically test the assertions that altering the congruency between a contemporary dance and soundtrack leads to a different aesthetic perception of the presentation. Thirty-four participants, were randomly assigned to watch a recorded dance performance in a theatre setting, with either the original soundtrack, no soundtrack or the original soundtrack reversed. Aesthetic interaction was measured in terms of continuous enjoyment ratings using an ASUS tablet, and physiological arousal was measured using Empatica 4 wristbands. Granger Causality analysis indicated that rate of visual change of the stimulus granger caused electrodermal activity, for the congruent and incongruent sound conditions, but not for the silent condition. Group enjoyment scores did not mirror group physiological responses; in that they were not predicted by visual change of the performance. Additionally, the silent and congruent conditions were rated as less enjoyable as the incongruent condition. Qualitative data demonstrated that participants found the congruent and silent conditions boring, while they found the incongruent condition unpleasant.
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- 2017
11. Joint action aesthetics
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Vicary, Staci, Sperling, Matthias, von Zimmermann, Jorina, Richardson, Daniel C., Orgs, Guido, and HASH(0x7fa45774aa58)
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Synchronized movement is a ubiquitous feature of dance and music performance. Much research into the evolutionary origins of these cultural practices has focused on why humans perform rather than watch or listen to dance and music. In this study, we show that movement synchrony among a group of performers predicts the aesthetic appreciation of live dance performances. We developed a choreography that continuously manipulated group synchronization using a defined movement vocabulary based on arm swinging, walking and running. The choreography was performed live to four audiences, as we continuously tracked the performers’ movements, and the spectators’ affective responses. We computed dynamic synchrony among performers using cross recurrence analysis of data from wrist accelerometers, and implicit measures of arousal from spectators’ heart rates. Additionally, a subset of spectators provided continuous ratings of enjoyment and perceived synchrony using tablet computers. Granger causality analyses demonstrate predictive relationships between synchrony, enjoyment ratings and spectator arousal, if audiences form a collectively consistent positive or negative aesthetic evaluation. Controlling for the influence of overall movement acceleration and visual change, we show that dance communicates group coordination via coupled movement dynamics among a group of performers. Our findings are in line with an evolutionary function of dance–and perhaps all performing arts–in transmitting social signals between groups of people. Human movement is the common denominator of dance, music and theatre. Acknowledging the time-sensitive and immediate nature of the performer-spectator relationship, our study makes a significant step towards an aesthetics of joint actions in the performing arts.
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- 2017
12. Audiovisual Aesthetics of Sound and Movement in Contemporary Dance.
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Howlin, Claire, Vicary, Staci, and Orgs, Guido
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AUDITORY perception ,DANCE ,AESTHETICS ,SOUND - Abstract
How do movement and sound combine to produce an audiovisual aesthetics of dance? We assessed how audiovisual congruency influences continuous aesthetic and psychophysiological responses to contemporary dance. Two groups of spectators watched a recorded dance performance that included the performer's steps, breathing, and vocalizations but no music. Dance and sound were paired either as recorded or with the original soundtrack in reverse so that the performers' sounds were no longer coupled to their movements. A third group watched the dance video in silence. Audiovisual incongruency was rated as more enjoyable than congruent or silent conditions. In line with mainstream conceptions of dance as movement-to-music, arbitrary relationships between sound and movement were preferred to causal relationships in which performers produce their own soundtrack. Performed synchrony Granger caused changes in electrodermal activity only in the incongruent condition consistent with "aesthetic capture." Sound structures the perception of dance movement, increasing its aesthetic appeal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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13. Audiovisual Aesthetics of Sound and Movement in Contemporary Dance
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Howlin, Claire, primary, Vicary, Staci, additional, and Orgs, Guido, additional
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- 2018
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14. Inter-subject correlations during watching dance: An fMRI study
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Stevens Catherine, Pollick Frank, Noble Katie, and Vicary Staci
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Behavioral Neuroscience ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology ,Dance ,Neurology ,Subject (philosophy) ,Psychology ,Biological Psychiatry ,Cognitive psychology - Published
- 2013
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15. Posture-based processing in visual short-term memory for actions
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Vicary, Staci A., primary and Stevens, Catherine J., additional
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- 2014
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16. Exploring Physiology-Based Interactions in Performing Arts Using Artistic Interventions.
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Jansen, Taavet and Väljamäe, Aleksander
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PERFORMING arts ,DANCE improvisation ,INSTALLATION art ,LIE detectors & detection - Abstract
Technological innovations like physiological computing offer new possibilities when exploring audience-performer interaction. To avoid technological solutionism that often accompanies biosensor applications in performing arts, an artistic interventions approach was used. This paper describes a recent art-science residency consisting of three artistic experiments: the audience's electrodermal, activity-driven soundscape in a dance improvisation, a "lie detector" applied to the actor just after the performance, and a heart-rate-driven personal discotheque installation. Both artist and scientist provide reflections on future development of this transdisciplinary field from the performing arts perspective. Tallinna Ülikoolis toimus 2019. aasta veebruarist juunini kunstiteaduse residentuur, kus etenduskunstnik Taavet Jansen ja neuroteadlane Aleksander Väljamäe töötasid kunstilise sekkumise kontseptsiooniga, analüüsides võimalusi, kus publiku ja esinejate füsioloogilised reaktsioonid looksid uusi tähendusi etenduskunstide kontekstis. Selles artiklis analüüsivad ja kirjeldavad autorid sooritatud eksperimente ja avaldavad omi isiklikke mõtteid toimunud sündmuste kohta. Kunstilises eksperimendis „Neurokoreograafia nr 4" uuriti interaktiivset improvisatsioonilist tantsuetendust, kus neljale vaatajale kinnitatud sensorid mõõtsid nende erutuse taset (electrodermal activity) ja saadud andmed manipuleerisid reaalajas sama etenduse helikujundust. Sellise interaktiivse lahenduse tekitatud tagasiside-efekt lõi olukorra, kus vaatajate tahtmatud reaktsioonid mõjutasid omakorda nende saadavat kogemust, tekitades lavastuse mõju intensiivsuse spiraali, kus nähtu mõjutas järgmisel hetkel juba kogemust ennast. Kunstilises eksperimendis „Macbeth" kasutati erutust mõõtvaid sensoreid, salvestamaks näitleja reaktsioone intervjuu vältel, kus esitati küsimusi tema rolliloome kohta vastlõppenud etenduses „Macbeth". Näitlejaga läbi viidud intervjuu eesmärgiks oli mõista, milliseid tehnikaid kasutab näitleja oma rolli luues, ja tehnoloogiat kasutades tuvastada, mil määral on näitleja teadlik oma laval tehtud kunstilistest ja tehnilistest otsustest. Interaktiivses heli- ja valgusinstallatsioonis „Heart-rate Party" kasutati külastaja südamerütmi, mõjutamaks installatsiooni heli- ja valguskujunduse tempot. Eksperiment tõi teravalt välja kriitilised küsimused piisava tehnilise võimekuse, kujunduse ja raamistuse olulisuse kohta, mis on vajalikud interaktiivse installatsiooni õnnestumiseks. Kõik kolm eksperimenti otsisid kontseptsioone, kuidas oleks võimalik salvestada võimalikult täpselt esineja-vaataja omavahelisest suhtest loetavaid andmeid. Oluline on välja tuua, et kogemused salvestatult füsioloogiliste andmetena ei pruugi väljendada teadlikku, subjektiivset reaktsiooni nähtud kunstilisele sisule. Sellised „uurimistööd võsas" (research-in-the-wild) võivad luua uusi võimalusi, kuidas tõlgendada füsioloogilisi andmeid mitte ainult laboratoorses kontekstis. Läbi kunsti prisma vaadatuna võivad need andmed omandada mitmeid uusi tähendusi. Inimeste füsioloogilised andmed on isikupärased, teatriruumis võivad need aga olla keerulise kognitiivse ja emotsionaalse manipulatsiooni tulemus. Seetõttu üldised klassifikaatorid, mis töötavad laboris, võivad olla etenduskunstide kontekstis kasutud. Füsioloogiliste sensorite kasutamine teatris võib tuua uusi dimensioone ka loomeprotsessidesse. Selleks tuleks aga luua võimalused, kus kunstnikud saaksid eksperimenteerida sensortehnoloogiatega juba loomeprotsessi algusest peale. See annaks kunstnikule piisavalt hingasmisruumi, et saada ülevaade tehnoloogia pakutavatest võimalustest ning eksperimenteerida sellega piiranguteta. Oluline on tagada kunstnikule ka tugev tehniline ja teaduslik tugi eksperimenteerimise vältel. Samuti oleks oluline algatada arutelu füsioloogiliste andmete eetilise kasutamise kohta etenduskunstide kontekstis, nii et see oleks aktsepteeritud nii kunstnike kui ka vaatajate poolt, aga oleks ka vastavuses inimestega tehtavate eksperimentide eetiliste standarditega. Väga palju põnevat uurimistööd ootab ees: kuidas interpreteerida ja teha mõistetavaks esinejatelt ja vaatajatelt kogutud andmed. Praegusel juhul kasutatakse interaktsiooni visualiseerimiseks andmete otsest ülekandmist audiovisuaalseteks parameetriteks. See tagab küll perfektse sünkrooni audiovisuaalses efektis, kuid selles puudub peamine - teadmine, mida need andmed tähendavad nii teaduslikult kui ka kunstilises kontekstis kasutatuna. Kunstis jääb tihti puudu teoreetilistest teadmistest, mis aitaksid intuitiivselt tehtud kunstilisi otsuseid raamistada. Selline teadmiste ülekandmine kunsti ja teaduse vahel avaks uusi võimalusi kunstiteoste interpreteerimisel ja looks uusi perspektiive mõlema valdkonna arenemiseks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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17. Visual Cognition Volume 23, 2015 List of Reviewers.
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EDITORIAL boards ,PERIODICAL editors ,COGNITION research - Published
- 2015
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18. Performance Generating Systems in Dance : Dramaturgy, Psychology, and Performativity
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Pil Hansen and Pil Hansen
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- Electronic books, Dance, Dramaturges, Dance--Psychological aspects
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Performance generating systems are systematic and task-based dramaturgies that generate performance for or with an audience. In dance, such systems differ in ways that matter from more closed choreographed scores and more open forms of structured improvisation. Dancers performing within these systems draw on predefined and limited sources while working on specific tasks within constraining rules. The generating components of the systems provide boundaries that enable the performance to self-organize into iteratively shifting patterns instead of becoming repetitive or chaotic. This book identifies the generating components and dynamics of these works and the kinds of dramaturgical agency they enable. It explains how the systems of these creations affect the perception, cognition and learning of dancers and why that is a central part of how they work. It also examines how the combined dramaturgical and psychological effects of the systems performatively address individual and social conditions of trauma that otherwise tend to remain unchangeable and negatively impact the human capacity to learn, relate and adapt. The book provides analytical frameworks and practical insights for those who wish to study or apply performance generating systems in dance within the fields of choreography and dance dramaturgy, dance education, community dance or dance psychology. Featured cases offer unique insight into systems created by Deborah Hay and Christopher House, William Forsythe, Ame Henderson, Karen Kaeja and Lee Su-Feh.
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- 2022
19. Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts
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Matthew Reason, Lynne Conner, Katya Johanson, Ben Walmsley, Matthew Reason, Lynne Conner, Katya Johanson, and Ben Walmsley
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- Performing arts--Audiences
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The Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts represents a truly multi-dimensional exploration of the inter-relationships between audiences and performance.This study considers audiences contextually and historically, through both qualitative and quantitative empirical research, and places them within appropriate philosophical and socio-cultural discourses. Ultimately, the collection marks the point where audiences have become central and essential not just to the act of performance itself but also to theatre, dance, opera, music and performance studies as academic disciplines.This Companion will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduates, as well as to theatre, dance, opera and music practitioners and performing arts organisations and stakeholders involved in educational activities.
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- 2022
20. Dancing with Parkinson's
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Sara Houston and Sara Houston
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- Parkinson's disease--Physical therapy--Popular works
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This book explores the experience and value of dancing for people living with the neurodegenerative disorder Parkinson's disease. Linking aesthetic values to wellbeing, Sara Houston articulates the importance of the dancing experience for those with Parkinson's, and argues that the benefits of participatory dance are best understood through the experiences, lives, needs and challenges of people living with Parkinson's who have chosen to dance. Presenting personal narratives from a study that investigates the experience of people with Parkinson's who dance, intertwined with the social and political contexts in which the dancers live, this volume examines the personal and systemic issues as well as the attitudes and identities that shape people's relationship to dance. Taking this new primary research as a starting point, Dancing with Parkinson's builds an argument for how dance becomes a way of helping people live well with Parkinson's.
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- 2019
21. Performing the Remembered Present : The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music
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Pil Hansen, Bettina Bläsing, Pil Hansen, and Bettina Bläsing
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- Memory, Performing arts--Psychological aspects
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This international collection brings together scientists, scholars and artist-researchers to explore the cognition of memory through the performing arts and examine artistic strategies that target cognitive processes of memory. The strongly embodied and highly trained memory systems of performing artists render artistic practice a rich context for understanding how memory is formed, utilized and adapted through interaction with others, instruments and environments. Using experimental, interpretive and Practice-as-Research methods that bridge disciplines, the authors provide overview chapters and case studies of subjects such as:• collectively and environmentally distributed memory in the performing arts;• autobiographical memory triggers in performance creation and reception;• the journey from learning to memory in performance training;• the relationship between memory, awareness and creative spontaneity, and• memorization and embodied or structural analysis of scores and scripts.This volume provides an unprecedented resource for scientists, scholars, artists, teachers and students looking for insight into the cognition of memory in the arts, strategies of learning and performance, and interdisciplinary research methodology.
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- 2017
22. Theatre, Performance and Cognition : Languages, Bodies and Ecologies
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Rhonda Blair, Amy Cook, Rhonda Blair, and Amy Cook
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- Theater--Psychological aspects, Performing arts
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Theatre, Performance and Cognition introduces readers to the key debates, areas of research, and applications of the cognitive sciences to the humanities, and to theatre and performance in particular. It features the most exciting work being done at the intersection of theatre and cognitive science, containing both selected scientific studies that have been influential in the field, each introduced and contextualised by the editors, together with related scholarship from the field of theatre and performance that demonstrates some of the applications of the cognitive sciences to actor training, the rehearsal room and the realm of performance more generally.The three sections consider the principal areas of research and application in this interdisciplinary field, starting with a focus on language and meaning-making in which Shakespeare's work and Tom Stoppard's Arcadia are considered. In the second part which focuses on the body, chapters consider applications for actor and dance training, while the third part focuses on dynamic ecologies, of which the body is a part.
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- 2016
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