The impact of sensorimotor experience on affective evaluation of dance
| Autor: | Emily S. Cross, Kim A. Drommelschmidt, Louise P. Kirsch |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Dance
media_common.quotation_subject education Stimulus (physiology) 050105 experimental psychology lcsh:RC321-571 Pleasure 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience 0302 clinical medicine training-induced changes dance Observational learning 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Original Research Article lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry Video game Biological Psychiatry media_common Behaviour Change and Well-being training 05 social sciences Psychiatry and Mental health Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology observational learning Neurology neuroaesthetics Embodied cognition aesthetics Motor learning Psychology Whole body Social psychology motor learning 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Neuroscience |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7 Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Vol 7 (2013) Frontiers in Human Neuroscience |
| ISSN: | 1662-5161 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00521 |
| Popis: | Contains fulltext : 116721.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) Past research demonstrates that we are more likely to positively evaluate a stimulus if we have had previous experience with that stimulus. This has been shown for judgment of faces, architecture, artworks and body movements. In contrast, other evidence suggests that this relationship can also work in the inverse direction, at least in the domain of watching dance. Specifically, it has been shown that in certain contexts, people derive greater pleasure from watching unfamiliar movements they would not be able to physically reproduce compared to simpler, familiar actions they could physically reproduce. It remains unknown, however, how different kinds of experience with complex actions, such as dance, might change observers' affective judgments of these movements. Our aim was to clarify the relationship between experience and affective evaluation of whole body movements. In a between-subjects design, participants received either physical dance training with a video game system, visual and auditory experience or auditory experience only. Participants' aesthetic preferences for dance stimuli were measured before and after the training sessions. Results show that participants from the physical training group not only improved their physical performance of the dance sequences, but also reported higher enjoyment and interest in the stimuli after training. This suggests that physically learning particular movements leads to greater enjoyment while observing them. These effects are not simply due to increased familiarity with audio or visual elements of the stimuli, as the other two training groups showed no increase in aesthetic ratings post-training. We suggest these results support an embodied simulation account of aesthetics, and discuss how the present findings contribute to a better understanding of the shaping of preferences by sensorimotor experience. 10 p. |
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