Dance experience sculpts aesthetic perception and related brain circuits

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1337, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 130-139

  Kirsch, Louise P ^a   Dawson, Kelvin ^a   Cross, Emily S ^a,b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action perception; Aesthetics; Affective judgment; Dance; Emotion; FMRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DANCING; EMOTION; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTEGRATION; MALE; MUSIC; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; REWARD; SELF REPORT; SENSORY STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRAINING; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; HEARING; LEARNING; MOTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME; VIDEO GAME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; DANCING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION; MUSIC; PERCEPTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO GAMES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924588661     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12634     Document Type: Article

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