Learning to like it: Aesthetic perception of bodies, movements and choreographic structure

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 603-612

  Orgs, Guido ^a   Hagura, Nobuhiro ^a   Haggard, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Apparent biological motion; Artificial grammar learning; Dance; Structural mere exposure; Visual body perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; CHOREOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTION;

EID: 84876844100     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2013.03.010     Document Type: Article

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