The influence of sensorimotor experience on the aesthetic evaluation of dance across the life span

Progress in Brain Research
Louise P Kirsch, Emily S Cross

Abstract

Understanding how action perception, embodiment, and emotion interact is essential for advancing knowledge about how we perceive and interact with each other in a social world. One tool that has proved particularly useful in the past decade for exploring the relationship between perception, action, and affect is dance. Dance is, in its essence, a rich and multisensory art form that can be used to help answer not only basic questions about social cognition but also questions concerning how aging shapes the relationship between action perception, and the role played by affect, emotion, and aesthetics in social perception. In the present study, we used a 1-week physical and visual dance training paradigm to instill varying degrees of sensorimotor experience among non-dancers from three distinct age groups (early adolescents, young adults, and older adults). Our aim was to begin to build an understanding of how aging influences the relationship between action embodiment and affective (or aesthetic) value, at both brain and behavioral levels. On balance, our results point toward a similar positive effect of sensorimotor training on aesthetic evaluations across the life span on a behavioral level, but to rather different neural subst...Continue Reading

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Feb 28, 2021·Trends in Neurosciences·Richard RamseyEmily S Cross
Mar 25, 2021·Cognition·Alessandra FinisguerraCosimo Urgesi
Mar 27, 2021·Frontiers in Psychology·Joerg FingerhutJesse J Prinz

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