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Music & Neurosciences V – Blog 7 (Musical Emotions)
Hello Dear Reader I hope you will forgive my lapse on the afternoon of Day 3. I was late staying at the poster session so I missed the start of symposium 7 on “The Beat” as a structured environment for movement, communication and socialization. This was a shame but having missed the start I decided to have a rest so that I was refreshed for the final session of the day. If you are interested in this Beat symposium, organised by Katie Overy, then you can find all the abstracts online. A little frayed but rested, I headed back for the final symposium of the day organised by Stefan Koelsch…
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Music and Neurosciences V – Blog 6 (Dance and the Brain)
Hello Dear Reader Symposium 6 from this year’s Music and Neurosciences conference marked an interesting departure from the norm – it was entitled Dance and the Brain. In my book ‘You Are The Music’ I talk about the importance of music for dance and also discuss briefly the fact that it is a shame there are not more studies that are interested in both art forms. It seems that now there are at least a couple of researchers seeking to address this gap in our understanding. The first talk was by Emily Cross, who studies the impact on sensorimotor experience on the affective evaluation of movement. In other words, do professional dancers…
