1Theater Arts Department, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Psychol Sci. 2013 Sep;24(9):1732-9. doi: 10.1177/0956797613478824. Epub 2013 Jul 17.
In a number of domains, humans adopt a strategy of systematically reducing and minimizing a codified system of movement. One particularly interesting case is "marking" in dance, wherein the dancer performs an attenuated version of the choreography during rehearsal. This is ostensibly to save the dancer's physical energy, but a number of considerations suggest that it may serve a cognitive function as well. In this study, we tested this embodied-cognitive-load hypothesis by manipulating whether dancers rehearsed by marking or by dancing "full out" and found that performance was superior in the dancers who had marked. This finding indicates that marking confers cognitive benefits during the rehearsal process, and it raises questions regarding the cognitive functions of other movement-reduction systems, such as whispering, gesturing, and subvocalizing. In addition, it has implications for a variety of topics in cognitive science, including embodied cognition and the nascent fields of dance and music cognition.
在许多领域，人类会采用一种系统的策略来简化和最小化已编码的运动系统。在舞蹈中“标记”是一个特别有趣的例子，舞蹈演员在排练时会以一种弱化的形式表演舞蹈动作。这表面上是为了节省舞者的体力，但有许多因素表明，它可能也具有认知功能。在这项研究中，我们通过操纵舞蹈演员是通过标记还是“全力”跳舞来排练，以此来检验这个具身认知负荷假说，结果发现标记的舞蹈演员的表现更好。这一发现表明，标记在排练过程中具有认知上的好处，并且这也引发了关于其他减少运动系统（如耳语、手势和默读）的认知功能的问题。此外，它还涉及认知科学的多个领域，包括具身认知以及新兴的舞蹈和音乐认知领域。
