Building a motor simulation de novo: Observation of dance by dancers

By Emily S. Cross, Antonia F. de C. Hamilton, Scott T. Grafton. NeuroImage, 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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The mirror neuron system. (2009, positive): “An additional prospective study showed that dancers who were initially naive to certain steps showed an increase in mirror activation over time if they underwent a period of motor training in which they became skilful in performing the same steps.(22) The mechanism involved in learning by imitation ”
Action anticipation and motor resonance in elite basketball players (2008, background): “Moreover, learning complex dance patterns modulates neural motor activity during the observation of practiced as compared with visually familiar, but unpracticed, movement”
Prefrontal involvement in imitation learning of hand actions: Effects of practice and expertise (2007, background): “More recently, Calvo-Merino et al. (2005) (2006) and Cross et al. (2006) showed stronger activations in the MNS when dancers observed dancing movements that were part of the individual's motor repertoire, compared to observation of matched, but nonpractised movements.”
A visual analytics approach to understanding cycling behaviour (2012, neutral): “Given a set of labeled examples E and background knowledge B , an ILP system seeks to ﬁnd a hypothesis H that minimizes a speciﬁed loss function.”
Neural reflections of meaning in gesture, language, and action (2009, result): “Our results might seem at odds with earlier neuroimaging studies that did show an influence of motor repertoire of expert dancers on the neural correlates of action observation (Calvo-Merino et al. 2005; Calvo-Merino et al. 2006; Cross et al. 2006).”
The thing that should not be: predictive coding and the uncanny valley in perceiving human and humanoid robot actions (2011, background): “In support for this, there are links between activity within the APS and whether the observer can perform the seen movement (e.g. Calvo-Merino et al., 2006; Cross et al., 2006; Candidi et al., 2008).”
A Nonverbal Language for Imagining and Learning: Dance Education in K–12 Curriculum (2008, background): “Learning to dance by observation is cognitively related to practice: There is neural resonance between observed and embodied action (Cross et al., 2006; Grafton & Cross, 2008).”
Neuroaesthetics and beyond: new horizons in applying the science of the brain to the art of dance (2012, background): “…brain regions is consistent with those regions activated by dance observation (Calvo-Merino et al. 2005) and dance imagery paired with observation (Cross et al. 2006).4 The research on dancers’ brains has opened a portal to understanding how specific changes in the brain are associated with…”
Where do mirror neurons come from? (2010, background): “Studies involving musicians and dancers indicate that experience also modulates the activity of the human mirror neuron system (D’Ausilio et al., 2006; Cross et al., 2006; Margulis et al., 2009).”
Understanding others' actions and goals by mirror and mentalizing systems: A meta-analysis (2009, positive): “1 of Hamilton and Grafton (2006), copyright 2006 by Society for Neuroscience, w The mirror system allows one to sense rapidly and intuitively the other person's goals on the basis of low-level behavioral input, but is limited to familiar and frequently executed actions (Calvo-Merino et al., 2005; Ca”
Seeing or doing? Influence of visual and motor familiarity in action observation. (2006, background): “Previous studies have aimed to use acquired motor skills [9, 24, 25] to investigate whether mirror areas contain a purely motoric representation of observed actions.”