The social and neural bases of creative movement: workshop overview

Shihab Shamma; Jose Contreras-Vidal; Jonathan Fritz; Soo-Siang Lim; Betty Tuller; Emmeline Edwards; Sunil Iyengar

doi:10.1186/s12868-024-00893-w

The social and neural bases of creative movement: workshop overview

BMC Neurosci. 2024 Nov 6;25(1):68. doi: 10.1186/s12868-024-00893-w.

Authors

Shihab Shamma^{1

2}, Jose Contreras-Vidal³, Jonathan Fritz⁴, Soo-Siang Lim⁵, Betty Tuller⁵, Emmeline Edwards⁶, Sunil Iyengar⁷

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. [email protected].
² Le Département d'Etudes Cognitives, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. [email protected].
³ IUCRC BRAIN, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
⁴ Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York City, NY, USA.
⁵ National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA, USA.
⁶ National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
⁷ National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC, USA.

Abstract

This editorial provides a background and overview of the interdisciplinary workshop on "The Social and Neural Bases of Creative Movement," bringing together dancers, choreographers, musicians, artists, kinesiologists and neuroscientists to share perspectives and develop a common language to define and explore the relationship between dance and the brain.

Publication types

Editorial
Introductory Journal Article

MeSH terms

Brain* / physiology
Creativity*
Dancing* / physiology
Humans
Movement / physiology
Music / psychology
Social Behavior