Title
Mental Representation of Spatial Movement Parameters in Dance.
Abstract
Via training, dance experts develop special experience-based embodied representations of body and movement. Professional dancers, amateurs and novices sorted central functional nodes of two dance movements according to their spatial equivalence. Results of a hierarchical cluster analysis and classification probabilities revealed movement-specific differences in mental representations related to skill-level. Cluster solutions of experts reflected functional structures, with adequate spatial parameters associated to the main movement phases. Amateurs achieved similar results only for the less complex movement, whereas novices showed nonfunctional results. The findings suggest that only dance experts' distinct embodied representations of dance movements include information about body-centered spatial parameters.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1080/13875868.2011.626095
SPATIAL COGNITION AND COMPUTATION
Keywords
Field
DocType
dance expertise,mental representation,movement concepts,spatial parameters,motor imagery
Hierarchical clustering,Data mining,Dance,Psychology,Cognitive psychology,Embodied cognition,Equivalence (measure theory),Artificial intelligence,Motor imagery,Mental representation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12.0
SP2-3
1387-5868
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.41
4
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bettina Bläsing1182.65
Thomas Schack2337.51