Yang Ching-Ju, Yu Hsin-Yen, Hong Tzu-Yi, Cheng Li-Kai, Li Wei-Chi, Yeh Tzu-Chen, Chen Li-Fen, Hsieh Jen-Chuen
Institute of Brain Science, College of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Integrated Brain Research Unit, Division of Clinical Research, Department of Medical Research, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Front Hum Neurosci. 2024 Feb 15;18:1347386. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2024.1347386. eCollection 2024.
Dance education fosters embodied metacognition, enhancing student's creativity. This study examines the crucial role of functional connectivity (FC) between the neural correlates of metacognition (NCM) and dance (NCD) as the neurological foundation for dancers' embodied metacognition. The investigation also explores whether these consolidated FCs inform the general creativity in dancers.
The research involved 29 dancers and 28 non-dancer controls. The study examined resting-state connections of the NCM through seed-based FC analysis. Correlation analyses were employed to investigate the connections between the targeted NCM-NCD FCs, initiated from the NCM seed, and general creativity.
Dancers demonstrated heightened FC between NCM and NCD compared to non-dancer controls. The targeted regions included the putamen, globus pallidus, posterior cerebellum, and anterior insula of NCD. The dancers exhibited higher originality scores. In dancers, the enhanced FC showed a negative correlation with originality and a positive correlation with flexibility. Conversely, the controls exhibited no significant correlations.
Extended dance training enhances the NCM-NCD connection signifying embodied metacognition. This interconnectedness may serve as the neural predisposition for fostering general creativity performance in dancers. Dancers with heightened levels of originality could leverage the relatively weaker NCM-NCD FCs to facilitate better integration and coordination of creative cognitive processes. Our findings suggest that the consolidated functional connections as sculpted by domain-specific training may inform general creativity.
舞蹈教育促进具身元认知，提高学生的创造力。本研究考察元认知神经关联（NCM）与舞蹈神经关联（NCD）之间功能连接（FC）作为舞者具身元认知的神经基础的关键作用。该调查还探讨这些巩固的功能连接是否能反映舞者的一般创造力。
该研究纳入了29名舞者和28名非舞者对照。通过基于种子的功能连接分析研究NCM的静息态连接。采用相关分析来研究从NCM种子起始的目标NCM - NCD功能连接与一般创造力之间的联系。
与非舞者对照相比，舞者在NCM和NCD之间表现出更强的功能连接。目标区域包括NCD的壳核、苍白球、小脑后部和前岛叶。舞者表现出更高的原创性得分。在舞者中，增强的功能连接与原创性呈负相关，与灵活性呈正相关。相反，对照组未表现出显著相关性。
长期的舞蹈训练增强了NCM - NCD连接，这意味着具身元认知。这种相互联系可能是促进舞者一般创造力表现的神经倾向。具有较高原创性水平的舞者可以利用相对较弱的NCM - NCD功能连接来促进创造性认知过程的更好整合与协调。我们的研究结果表明，由特定领域训练塑造的巩固功能连接可能反映一般创造力。
