Watching and feeling ballet

Neuroscience and Semiotics of Bodily Movement

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ID4473586
AuthorsSergei Kruk (0000-0003-1876-0932, Riga Stradins University , Riga , Latvia, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume2022
Issue248
Pages351-374
Publication date2022-09-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSemiotica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/sem-2022-0071
OpenAlexW4291554760
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited54

Neuroscience has established several brain pathways that process visual information. Distinct neural circuits analyze body appearance and movement providing information about the person's cognitive and emotional states. The activity of the pathways depends on the salience of visual stimuli for the organism in the given circumstances. Since ballet performances are not among the crucial events for the viewer's organism, not all viewers perceive and interpret bodily signs that express the mental state of the dancer. Treatment of the dancer as close other activates the neural circuits that elaborate emotions, this enables the viewer to feel the internal state of the dancer and enrich the interpretation of the scenic action

Action (physics) · Art · Ballet · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Dance · Feeling · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Salience (neuroscience) · Semiotics · Visual arts · Action Observation and Synchronization · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Communication · Computer Science · Multisensory perception and integration · Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Psychology

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