Theatre and Cognitive Neuroscience (Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1472584783 ISBN 13: 9781472584786

Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016

Synopsis

The field of interdisciplinary research on art and neuroscience is fast expanding, and this is the first volume to provide a detailed introduction to some of the main areas of research and practice, drawing on contributions from neuroscientists, theatre scholars and artists. As such it offers readers an exciting insight into the international panorama of ongoing interdisciplinary research between the fields of theatre and neuroscience. Divided into four parts, each prefaced by an expert editorial introduction, it explores: * Theatre as a space of relationships: a neurocognitive perspective * The spectators performative experience and Embodied Theatrology * The complexity of theatre and human cognition * Interdisciplinary perspectives on applied performance Each part includes contributions from international pioneers of interdisciplinarity in theatre scholarship, and from neuroscientists of world-renown researching the physiology of action, the mirror neuron mechanism, action perception, space perception, empathy and intersubjectivity. While illustrating the remarkable growth of interest in the performing arts for cognitive neuroscience, the volume reveals both the difficulties but also the enormous benefits arising from interdisciplinary research.

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About the Authors

Clelia Falletti is Associate Professor at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Gabriele Sofia, PhD in Theatre Studies and Ethnoscenology, teaches at the Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France.

Victor Jacono, PhD in Performance Studies, teaches Acting at the MCAST Institute for the Creative Arts and Drama at the Alternative Learning Program, Malta.

John Lutterbie was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Theatre Arts and the Department of Art at Stony Brook University, USA. He was the director of the International Network for Cognition, Theatre and Performance and with Nicola Shaughnessy was the series editor of the Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues series.

Nicola Shaughnessy is Professor of Performance at the University of Kent. She is Director of the Research Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance and is leading the AHRC funded project 'Imagining Autism.'

She is the author of Applying Performance (2012), Gertrude Stein (2007) and co-editor of Margaret Woffington (2008).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472584783
• ISBN 13: 9781472584786
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Falletti Clelia, Sofia Gabriele, Jacono Victor