Main description:

Dance has always been an important aspect of all human cultures, and the study of human movement and action has become a topic of increasing relevance over the last decade, bringing dance into the focus of the cognitive sciences. Since the first edition of The Neurocognition of Dance was published, research into the cognitive science of dance has expanded extensively, with the number of scientific studies focusing on dance and dance-related topics in cognitive psychology growing significantly.

Featuring three new chapters addressing topics that have become highly relevant to the field in recent years - neuroaesthetics, entrainment, and choreographic cognition - as well as progress in teaching based on novel methods, this comprehensively revised and updated new edition of The Neurocognition of Dance is full of cutting-edge insights from scientists, researchers, and professionals from the world of dance.

Also now including online material such as links to video clips, colour images and hands-on material for practical application, this book is an essential companion for students and professionals from fields including dance, cognitive psychology, sport psychology and sport science, movement science, and cognitive robotics.

Contents:

Ipke Wachsmuth: Foreword for the first edition

Freya Vass-Rhee: Foreword for the second edition

Bettina Blasing, Martin Puttke & Thomas Schack: Introduction: Moving towards a multidisciplinary neuro-cognitive science of dance

Part II: The dance perspective

Martin Puttke: Learning to dance means learning to think!

Galeet BenZion: The Kinematics Teaching Methodology: Marrying kinesthetic stimuli with reading instruction

Elizabeth Waterhouse: In-Sync: Entrainment in dance

Gregor Zoellig: Searching for that 'other land of dance': The phases in developing a choreography

Scott deLahunta & Philip Barnard: Seeing the 'choreographic mind': Three analytic lenses developed to probe and notate creative thinking in dance

Part II: The science perspective

Thomas Schack: Building blocks and architecture of dance: a cognitive-perceptual perspective

David A. Rosenbaum: Shall we dance again? Action researchers and dancers can move together

Holk Cruse & Malte Schilling: Getting cognitive

Bettina Blasing: The dancer's memory: learning with the body from the remembered, the percieved and the imagined

Part III: Neurocognitive Studies of Dance

Beatriz Calvo-Merino: Neural mechanisms for seeing dance

Emily S. Cross: Building a dance in the human brain: Insights from expert and novice dancers

Guido Orgs, Beatriz Calvo-Merino & Emily S. Cross: Knowing dance or knowing how to dance? Sources of expertise in aesthetic appreciation of human movement.

Corinne Jola: Choreographed science: Merging dance and cognitive neuroscience