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The cognitive neuroscience and neurocognitive rehabilitation of dance
Madeleine Eve Hackney1,2,3,4,5, Agnieszka Zofia Burzynska6, Lena H Ting7,8
1Center for Visual and Neurocognitive Rehabilitation, Atlanta VA HealthCare System, 1670 Clairmont Road, Decatur, GA, 30033, United States of America. mehackn@emory.edu.
Abstract:
Creative movement, in the form of music- and dance-based exercise and rehabilitation, can serve as a model for learning and memory, visuospatial orientation, mental imagery, and multimodal sensory-motor integration. This review summarizes the advancement in cognitive neuroscience aimed at determining cognitive processes and brain structural and functional correlates involved in dance or creative movement, as well as the cognitive processes which accompany such activities. We synthesize the evidence for the use of cognitive, motor, and cognitive-motor function in dance as well as dance's potential application in neurological therapy and neurorehabilitation. Finally, we discuss how partnered interaction and sensorimotor integration in dance, and "dancing robots" could shed light on future application of dance as rehabilitation, of dance used in technology and potential mechanisms of benefit from dance-based activities.
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