Kirsch Louise P, Cross Emily S
Social Brain in Action Laboratory, Wales Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Bangor University, Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom; Research Department of Clinical, Educational, and Health Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom.
Social Brain in Action Laboratory, Wales Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Bangor University, Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom; Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology and School of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Prog Brain Res. 2018;237:291-316. doi: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2018.03.012. Epub 2018 May 3.
Understanding how action perception, embodiment, and emotion interact is essential for advancing knowledge about how we perceive and interact with each other in a social world. One tool that has proved particularly useful in the past decade for exploring the relationship between perception, action, and affect is dance. Dance is, in its essence, a rich and multisensory art form that can be used to help answer not only basic questions about social cognition but also questions concerning how aging shapes the relationship between action perception, and the role played by affect, emotion, and aesthetics in social perception. In the present study, we used a 1-week physical and visual dance training paradigm to instill varying degrees of sensorimotor experience among non-dancers from three distinct age groups (early adolescents, young adults, and older adults). Our aim was to begin to build an understanding of how aging influences the relationship between action embodiment and affective (or aesthetic) value, at both brain and behavioral levels. On balance, our results point toward a similar positive effect of sensorimotor training on aesthetic evaluations across the life span on a behavioral level, but to rather different neural substrates supporting implicit aesthetic judgment of dance movements at different life stages. Taken together, the present study contributes valuable first insights into the relationship between sensorimotor experience and affective evaluations across ages, and underscores the utility of dance as a stimulus and training intervention for addressing key questions relevant to human neuroscience as well as the arts and humanities.
理解动作感知、具身认知和情感如何相互作用，对于增进我们对在社会世界中如何相互感知和互动的认识至关重要。在过去十年中，舞蹈已被证明是探索感知、动作和情感之间关系的一种特别有用的工具。舞蹈本质上是一种丰富的多感官艺术形式，它不仅可用于帮助回答有关社会认知的基本问题，还能回答有关衰老如何塑造动作感知之间的关系，以及情感、情绪和美学在社会感知中所起作用的问题。在本研究中，我们采用了为期1周的身体和视觉舞蹈训练范式，为来自三个不同年龄组（青少年早期、年轻人和老年人）的非舞者灌输不同程度的感觉运动体验。我们的目的是开始在大脑和行为层面上理解衰老如何影响动作具身和情感（或美学）价值之间的关系。总体而言，我们的结果表明，感觉运动训练在行为层面上对整个生命周期的美学评价具有类似的积极影响，但在不同生命阶段支持舞蹈动作隐性美学判断的神经基质却大不相同。综上所述，本研究为不同年龄阶段的感觉运动体验与情感评价之间的关系提供了有价值的初步见解，并强调了舞蹈作为一种刺激和训练干预手段，对于解决与人类神经科学以及艺术和人文学科相关的关键问题的实用性。
