The Neuroscience of Dance

Dance was really valuable to me when I was first starting off in this area because we could classify it as movement for movement's sake. But all of a sudden we could look at full body movements and we could see people moving through space. So dance is fantastic in that way from a neuroscience perspective Because it offers us at least these two really useful things. It can help us ask basic questions about basic function of the human brain. How do we link action with perception? But it can also help us to address really interesting and exciting questions about the value psychologically and neuro scientifically of the performing arts. That's really cool.