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	Neuroscience of Dance

abailart

7-24-2009 4:32 AM

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neuroscience of dance, metaphor

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By extension, cognitive dancing: thinking, writing, speaking from the body as physical acts, countering the cartesian tragedy of abstracting the mind into a pallid abstraction?

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2b6c8584-f29b-47fd-acfd-c4712c2b3b5a/D983DAFB-30B5-44C8-9683-FB0534C81046/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://heartysoul.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/neuroscience-of-dance/" href="http://heartysoul.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/neuroscience-of-dance/" style="font-size: 11px;">heartysoul.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://heartysoul.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/neuroscience-of-dance/"><P>I haven’t read this article, but a swing dancing friend of mine did and this is what she had to say about it:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://heartysoul.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/neuroscience-of-dance/"><P>The July 2008 issue of Scientific American contains
an article titled “The Neuroscience of Dance”.  It describes the
authors’ efforts to map regions of the brain involved in dancing. I
didn’t see any startling or amusing revelations, but a couple of
findings that confirm what you know from common sense:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://heartysoul.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/neuroscience-of-dance/"><P>BUT the MOST interesting info. came from a sidebars to the article.
In 2007, other researchers found that tango dancing improved mobility
in Parkinson’s patients. After 20 tango classes, subjects “froze”
less often, had better balance and were less at risk of falling.  I
betcha these benefits apply to everyone who dances1  Also, when
knocked off balance, trained dancers right themselves far more
quickly than untrained subjects.  “As the brain learns to dance, it
also apparently learns to update feedback from the body to the brain
more quickly.”</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/07/24/brain-dance-and-culture/" href="http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/07/24/brain-dance-and-culture/" style="font-size: 11px;">neuroanthropology.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/07/24/brain-dance-and-culture/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/neuroanthropology.net/img/81A80CDE-FAE3-4272-B39F-9C7774558DE6" alt="slide2_Paul H Mason_copyright 2009" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D983DAFB-30B5-44C8-9683-FB0534C81046/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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