O Melhor Anjo

Um blog de Tiago Bartolomeu Costa

quinta-feira, dezembro 23, 2004

A mente de um bailarino

A ler, hoje, no The Guardian, porque é que os bailarinos movem o corpo como nós nem imaginamos.

Why only dancers can do a mental pirouette

Neuroscientists have pinpointed the parts of the brain where practice is made perfect.
When a prima ballerina watches someone perform a pirouette, or a professional footballer watches a player bend it like Beckham, they use parts of the brain not used by amateur watchers.

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Dancers always talk about 'body memory'; they have learned to do something 'in their bodies'," said Daniel Glaser, of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. "But that is nonsense. They learn it in their brains, the bits of the brain that control their movement.

"But what wasn't clear was that that bit of the brain was also activated when you see movement, and that is the critical insight here. You use your ability to move, your movement-control part of the brain, to help you see better."


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