Theatre And Cognitive Neuroscience

Author : Clelia Falletti,Gabriele Sofia,Victor Jacono
Publisher : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1472584813

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Theatre and Cognitive Neuroscience by Clelia Falletti,Gabriele Sofia,Victor Jacono Pdf

With the field of interdisciplinary research on art and neuroscience fast expanding, this volume provides a detailed introduction to some of the main areas of research and practice, drawing on contributions from neuroscientists, theatre scholars and artists. As such it offers readers an exciting insight into the international panorama of ongoing interdisciplinary research between the fields of theatre and neuroscience. Divided into four parts, each prefaced by an expert editorial introduction, it explores: theatre as a space of relationships - a neurocognitive perspective; the spectator's performative experience and 'embodied theatrology'; the complexity of theatre and human cognition; and interdisciplinary perspectives on applied performance.

Author : Clelia Falletti,Gabriele Sofia,Victor Jacono
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472584809

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Theatre and Cognitive Neuroscience by Clelia Falletti,Gabriele Sofia,Victor Jacono Pdf

This is the first volume to provide a detailed introduction to some of the main areas of research and practice in the interdisciplinary field of art and neuroscience. With contributions from neuroscientists, theatre scholars and artists from seven countries, it offers a rich and rigorous array of perspectives as a springboard to further exploration. Divided into four parts, each prefaced by an expert editorial introduction, it examines: * Theatre as a space of relationships: a neurocognitive perspective * The spectator's performative experience and 'embodied theatrology' * The complexity of theatre and human cognition * Interdisciplinary perspectives on applied performance Each part includes contributions from international pioneers of interdisciplinarity in theatre scholarship, and from neuroscientists of world-renown researching the physiology of action, the mirror neuron mechanism, action perception, space perception, empathy and intersubjectivity. While illustrating the remarkable growth of interest in the performing arts for cognitive neuroscience, this volume also reveals the extraordinary richness of exchange and debate born out of different approaches to the topics.

Author : Rhonda Blair,Amy Cook
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472591814

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Theatre, Performance and Cognition by Rhonda Blair,Amy Cook Pdf

Theatre, Performance and Cognition introduces readers to the key debates, areas of research, and applications of the cognitive sciences to the humanities, and to theatre and performance in particular. It features the most exciting work being done at the intersection of theatre and cognitive science, containing both selected scientific studies that have been influential in the field, each introduced and contextualised by the editors, together with related scholarship from the field of theatre and performance that demonstrates some of the applications of the cognitive sciences to actor training, the rehearsal room and the realm of performance more generally. The three sections consider the principal areas of research and application in this interdisciplinary field, starting with a focus on language and meaning-making in which Shakespeare's work and Tom Stoppard's Arcadia are considered. In the second part which focuses on the body, chapters consider applications for actor and dance training, while the third part focuses on dynamic ecologies, of which the body is a part.

Author : John Lutterbie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474256834

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An Introduction to Theatre, Performance and the Cognitive Sciences by John Lutterbie Pdf

This is the first textbook designed for students, practitioners and scholars of the performing arts who are curious about the power of the cognitive sciences to throw light on the processes of performance. It equips readers with a clear understanding of how research in cognitive neuroscience has illuminated and expanded traditional approaches to thinking about topics such as the performer, the spectator, space and time, culture, and the text. Each chapter considers four layers of performance: conventional forms of theatre, performance art, and everyday life, offering an expansive vision of the impact of the cognitive sciences on performance in the widest sense. Written in an approachable style, An Introduction to Theatre, Performance and the Cognitive Sciences weaves together case studies of a wide range of performances with scientific evidence and post-structural theory. Artists such as Robert Wilson, Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Ariane Mnouchkine, Bertolt Brecht, and Antonin Artaud are brought into conversation with theories of Gilles Deleuze, Shaun Gallagher, Alva Noë, Tim Ingold and the science of V. S. Ramachandran, Vittorio Gallese, and Antonio Damasio. John Lutterbie offers a complex understanding of not only the act of performing but the forces that mark the place of theatre in contemporary society. In drawing on a variety of scientific articles, Lutterbie provides readers with an accessible account of significant research in areas in the field and reveals how the sciences can help us understand the experience of art.

Author : Rick Kemp,Bruce McConachie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351690362

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The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science by Rick Kemp,Bruce McConachie Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science integrates key findings from the cognitive sciences (cognitive psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary studies and relevant social sciences) with insights from theatre and performance studies. This rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field dynamically advances critical and theoretical knowledge, as well as driving innovation in practice. The anthology includes 30 specially commissioned chapters, many written by authors who have been at the cutting-edge of research and practice in the field over the last 15 years. These authors offer many empirical answers to four significant questions: How can performances in theatre, dance and other media achieve more emotional and social impact? How can we become more adept teachers and learners of performance both within and outside of classrooms? What can the cognitive sciences reveal about the nature of drama and human nature in general? How can knowledge transfer, from a synthesis of science and performance, assist professionals such as nurses, care-givers, therapists and emergency workers in their jobs? A wide-ranging and authoritative guide, The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science is an accessible tool for not only students, but practitioners and researchers in the arts and sciences as well.

Author : John Harry Lutterbie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Cognitive science
ISBN : 1474256848

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An Introduction to Theatre, Performance and the Cognitive Sciences by John Harry Lutterbie Pdf

"This is the first textbook designed for students, practitioners, and scholars of the performing arts who are curious about the power of the cognitive sciences to throw light on the processes of performance, It equips readers with a clear understanding of how research in cognitive neuroscience has illuminated and expanded traditional approaches to thinking about topics such as the performer, the spectator, space and time, cultur, and the text. Each chapter considers three layers of performance: conventional forms of theatre, performance art, and everyday life, offering an expansive vision of the impact of the cognitive sciences on performance in the widest sense"--Publisher description.

Author : Rhonda Blair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135976248

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The Actor, Image, and Action by Rhonda Blair Pdf

Rhonda Blair examines the physiological relationship between bodily action and emotional experience, in the first full-length study of actor training using the insights of cognitive neuroscience and their crucial importance to an actor’s engagement with a role.

Author : Bruce McConachie,F. Elizabeth Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135989460

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Performance and Cognition by Bruce McConachie,F. Elizabeth Hart Pdf

This anthology is the first of its kind. In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on theatre studies – with applications for dramatic criticism, performance analysis, acting practice, audience response, theatre history, and other important areas – the book sets the agenda for future work, helping to map the emergence of this new approach. Following a comprehensive introduction, the contributors examine: the interfaces between cognitive studies and Lacanian psychoanalysis, phenomenology and communication theory different ideas from cognitive studies that open up the meanings of several plays the process of acting and the work of Antonio Damasio theatrical response: the dynamics of perception, and the riots that greeted the 1907 production of The Playboy of the Western World. This original and authoritative work will be attractive to scholars and graduate students of drama, theatre, and performance.

Author : Corinne Jola,Pil Hansen
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889714308

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Performance in Theatre and Everyday Life: Cognitive, Neuronal, and Applied Aspects of Acting by Corinne Jola,Pil Hansen Pdf

Author : Rhonda Blair,Amy Cook (Professor in English and theatre art),Nicola Shaughnessy,John Harry Lutterbie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Cognition
ISBN : 1472591828

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Theatre, Performance and Cognition by Rhonda Blair,Amy Cook (Professor in English and theatre art),Nicola Shaughnessy,John Harry Lutterbie Pdf

'Theatre, Performance and Cognition' introduces readers to the key debates, areas of research, and applications of the cognitive sciences to the humanities, and to theatre and performance in particular. It features the most exciting work being done at the intersection of theatre and cognitive science, containing both selected scientific studies that have been influential in the field.

Author : B. McConachie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230617025

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Engaging Audiences by B. McConachie Pdf

Engaging Audiences asks what cognitive science can teach scholars of theatre studies about spectator response in the theatre. Bruce McConachie introduces insights from neuroscience and evolutionary theory to examine the dynamics of conscious attention, empathy and memory in theatre goers.

Author : C. Drinko
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137335296

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Theatrical Improvisation, Consciousness, and Cognition by C. Drinko Pdf

Improvisation teachers have long known that the human mind could be trained to be effortlessly spontaneous and intuitive. Drinko explores what these improvisation teachers knew about improvisation's effects on consciousness and cognition and compares these theories to current findings in cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy.

Author : Nicola Shaughnessy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408183694

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Affective Performance and Cognitive Science by Nicola Shaughnessy Pdf

This book explores new developments in the dialogues between science and theatre and offers an introduction to a fast-expanding area of research and practice.The cognitive revolution in the humanities is creating new insights into the audience experience, performance processes and training. Scientists are collaborating with artists to investigate how our brains and bodies engage with performance to create new understanding of perception, emotion, imagination and empathy. Divided into four parts, each introduced by an expert editorial from leading researchers in the field, this edited volume offers readers an understanding of some of the main areas of collaboration and research: 1. Dances with Science 2. Touching Texts and Embodied Performance 3. The Multimodal Actor 4. Affecting Audiences Throughout its history theatre has provided exciting and accessible stagings of science, while contemporary practitioners are increasingly working with scientific and medical material. As Honour Bayes reported in the Guardian in 2011, the relationships between theatre, science and performance are 'exciting, explosive and unexpected'. Affective Performance and Cognitive Science charts new directions in the relations between disciplines, exploring how science and theatre can impact upon each other with reference to training, drama texts, performance and spectatorship. The book assesses the current state of play in this interdisciplinary field, facilitating cross disciplinary exchange and preparing the way for future studies.

Author : Stanton B. Garner, Jr.
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319917948

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Kinesthetic Spectatorship in the Theatre by Stanton B. Garner, Jr. Pdf

This book is about the centrality of movement, movement perception, and kinesthetic experience to theatrical spectatorship. Drawing upon phenomenological accounts of movement experience and the insights of cognitive science, neuroscience, acting theory, dance theory, philosophy of mind, and linguistics, it considers how we inhabit the movements of others and how these movements inhabit us. Individual chapters explore the dynamics of movement and animation, action and intentionality, kinesthetic resonance (or mirroring), language, speech, and empathy. In one of its most important contributions to the study of theatre, performance, and spectatorship, this book foregrounds otherness, divergence, and disability in its account of movement perception. The discussions of this and other issues are accompanied by detailed analysis of theatre, puppetry, and dance performances.

Author : Matthew Wilson Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190644093

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The Nervous Stage by Matthew Wilson Smith Pdf

Nineteenth-century investigations into the nervous system produced extraordinary discoveries that changed ways of thinking far beyond the scientific community. Over the course of the century, scientists began to conceive of the subject not principally as soul, mind, or even brain, but instead as a complex of organically interacting mechanisms, many of them operating more or less autonomously and unconsciously. Meanwhile, theatrical works of the time by Shelley, Wagner, Dickens, Buchner, Zola, and Strindberg, sought to play directly on the nerves of the spectators through non-representational means, comprising a coherent genre Matthew Wilson Smith has dubbed the "theaters of sensation." The Nervous Stage examines the relations between theatrical practices and the scientific study of the nervous system, arguing that to a significant degree, modern theater emerged out of the interaction between these two apparently disparate fields. In six chapters, The Nervous Stage makes three fundamental contributions to scholarship on comparative literature, specifically in the areas of drama/performance, cognitive literary studies, and the beginnings of global modernism. Through a series of revisionist readings of specific theatrical works and artists, Smith demonstrates that a number of literary texts were deeply engaged in dialogue with the neurological sciences of their period, and that an appreciation of this dialogue helps us better to understand their significance for their own historical period as well as for our own. Furthermore, it argues that a number of lesser-known works--ranging from certain "closet dramas" such as Shelley's The Cenci to popular melodramas such as Augustin Daly's Under the Gaslight--had much greater cultural significance than has been acknowledged heretofore.