Event
International Workshop on the Neural and Social Bases of Creative Movement
Thursday, April 7, 2022
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, Vienna, VA
https://yourbrainanddance.egr.uh.edu/schedule
Three days of scientific presentations and a day of educational outreach and performances. Presentations will include demonstrations within sessions, while public lectures and performances are on the fourth day.
Concurrent themes that run throughout all sessions: biological and social evolution of creative movement and its relation to music; learning and memory of complex motor sequences in creative movement; transformation of movement and performance to artistic expression; action and performance to perception; therapeutic and the life-enhancing value of creative movement.
| 8:00 – 9:00 | Sign in |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Welcome Shihab Shamma (University of Maryland) and Jose ‘Pepe’ Contreras-Vidal (University of Houston) |
| 9:30 – 12:00 |
Session 1: The Cultural, Anthropological, and Evolutionary Biology of Creative Movement Nicky Clayton (Cambridge University) and Mark Baldwin OBE (Mark Baldwin Studios): Dance as a Metaphor for Memory and Mental Time Travel: Exploring the role of Embodied Cognition. Aniruddh Patel (Tufts University): The evolutionary biology of human creative movement: insights from cross-species studies. |
| 10:30 – 10:45 |
Coffee Break Tecumseh Fitch (University of Vienna): Creative movement and Meter - Unpacking the Role of Rhythm in Movement. Erich Jarvis (Rockefeller University): A relationship between vocal learning and creative movement across species. |
| 12:00-1:00 | Networking Lunch (lunch provided in Pavilion) |
| 1:00 – 5:00 |
Session 2: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Dance Aga Burzynska (Colorado State University): The effects of dance on brain structure, function and cognition. Steven Brown (McMaster University): The neural basis of creative movement and partnering. Virginia Penhune (Concordia University): Dance, Music and Brain Plasticity: What we learn and when we learn it. |
| 3:00 – 3:15 |
Coffee Break Peter Keller (Western Sydney University): From sensory-motor to social influences on group music making and dance. Madeleine Hackney (Emory University School of Medicine): Effects of dance training in Parkinson’s disease, older adults, and people at risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Lena Ting (Emory University and Georgia Tech): Brain-body interactions for movement control across motor skill rehabilitation. |
