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Thinking in Action: Memory for Movement and Effects of Dance Expertise| old_uid | 5501 |
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| title | Thinking in Action: Memory for Movement and Effects of Dance Expertise |
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| start_date | 2008/10/31 |
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| schedule | 11h45-12h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | Bât. enseignement, Amphi G2 |
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| details | Barbara Tillmann, UMR 5020 |
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| summary | Experiments will be reported that investigate assumptions about human working and long-term memory in the general domain of movement and, more specifically, contemporary dance. Dance is a rich context for examination of human memory because dance is communicative, expressive, and universal, as well as non-verbal, temporal, spatial and kinesthetic. In the absence of simple notation and documentation systems, especially for contemporary dance, dancers are the somatic repositories of art works that they have composed and/or performed. Focusing initially on working memory, we investigated memory for configural movement (patterns of bodily movement) in addition to memory for positions in space. As hypothesized, concurrent configural movement interfered significantly more with memory for configural movement than a concurrent spatial task or no interference task. In a second series of experiments we investigated the assumption that postural stability draws on cognitive resources, moderated by dance or movement expertise. Relative to novices, dance experts displayed longer working memory spans for simple movements and experts were less impaired by postural instability during encoding and retrieval. Finally, eye fixations and saccades of expert and novice dance observers were compared to determine the effect of acquired expectations on observations of dance configurations. Measured fixation times of dance experts were significantly shorter, and saccades significantly faster, than those of novices. Dance experts are adept at anticipating movement and rapidly processing material, likely aided by acquired schemata or expectations in long-term memory and encoding and/or recognition of body and movement configurations |
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| responsibles | Grimault |
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