Overproduction Timing Errors in Expert Dancers

Minvielle-Moncla, Joëlle; Audiffren, Michel; Macar, Françoise; Vallet, Cécile Batigne

doi:10.3200/jmbr.40.4.291-300

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“…The movements, gestures, and figures are practiced repeatedly to perfection and unexpected events are suppressed. There is synchronization of one's movements to those of another dance partner or to the rhythm of the music, where timing and attention have important effects (Minvielle-Moncla et al 2008).…”

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Brain electrical activities of dancers and fast ball sports athletes are different

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Exercise training has been shown not only to influence physical fitness positively but also cognition in healthy and impaired populations. However, some particular exercise types, even though comparable based on physical efforts, have distinct cognitive and sensorimotor features. In this study, the effects of different types of exercise, such as fast ball sports and dance training, on brain electrical activity were investigated. Electroencephalography (EEG) scans were recorded in professional dancer, professional fast ball sports athlete (FBSA) and healthy control volunteer groups consisting of twelve subjects each. In FBSA, power of delta and theta frequency activities of EEG was significantly higher than those of the dancers and the controls. Conversely, dancers had significantly higher amplitudes in alpha and beta bands compared to FBSA and significantly higher amplitudes in the alpha band in comparison with controls. The results suggest that cognitive features of physical training can be reflected in resting brain electrical oscillations. The differences in resting brain electrical oscillations between the dancers and the FBSA can be the result of innate network differences determining the talents and/or plastic changes induced by physical training.

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“…For instance, a precise integration between the visual and motor systems is crucial for timing the kick of a football in motion (Egan et al, 2007 ). Similarly, well-developed audio-motor integration is essential in order to synchronize movements with external auditory cues (sensorimotor synchronization; e.g., Repp and Su, 2013 ), like in contemporary dancing (Minvielle-Moncla et al, 2008 ).…”

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Timing Training in Female Soccer Players: Effects on Skilled Movement Performance and Brain Responses

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Boraxbekk

et al. 2018

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Although trainers and athletes consider “good timing skills” critical for optimal sport performance, little is known in regard to how sport-specific skills may benefit from timing training. Accordingly, this study investigated the effects of timing training on soccer skill performance and the associated changes in functional brain response in elite- and sub-elite female soccer players. Twenty-five players (mean age 19.5 years; active in the highest or second highest divisions in Sweden), were randomly assigned to either an experimental- or a control group. The experimental group (n = 12) was subjected to a 4-week program (12 sessions) of synchronized metronome training (SMT). We evaluated effects on accuracy and variability in a soccer cross-pass task. The associated brain response was captured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while watching videos with soccer-specific actions. SMT improved soccer cross-pass performance, with a significant increase in outcome accuracy, combined with a decrease in outcome variability. SMT further induced changes in the underlying brain response associated with observing a highly familiar soccer-specific action, denoted as decreased activation in the cerebellum post SMT. Finally, decreased cerebellar activation was associated with improved cross-pass performance and sensorimotor synchronization. These findings suggest a more efficient neural recruitment during action observation after SMT. To our knowledge, this is the first controlled study providing behavioral and neurophysiological evidence that timing training may positively influence soccer-skill, while strengthening the action-perception coupling via enhanced sensorimotor synchronization abilities, and thus influencing the underlying brain responses.

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“…- Attention : complex choreographic patterns and tight spaces increase the margin of error in timing (Mivielle-Moncla et al, 2008 ). Synchronization with other dancers requires more attention to the time factor.…”

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Dancing in Your Head: An Interdisciplinary Review

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The aim of this review is to highlight the most relevant contributions on dance in neuroscientific research. Neuroscience has analyzed the mirror system through neuroimaging techniques, testing its role in imitative learning, in the recognition of other people's emotions and especially in the understanding of the motor behavior of others. This review analyses the literature related to five general areas: (I) breakthrough studies on the mirror system, and subsequent studies on its involvement in the prediction, the execution, the control of movement, and in the process of “embodied simulation” within the intersubjective relationship; (II) research focused on investigating the neural networks in action observation, and the neural correlates of motor expertise highlighted by comparative studies on different dance styles; (III) studies dealing with the viewer's experience of dance according to specific dance repertoires, which revealed the relevance of choreographic choices for aesthetic appreciation; (IV) studies focused on dance as an aesthetic experience, where both the emotional and the cultural dimension play a significant role, and whose investigation paves the way to further progress both in empirical and in phenomenological research methodologies; (V) collaboration-based experiments, in which neuroscientists and choreographers developed expertise-related questions, especially focusing on the multiple phenomena that underlie motor imagery.

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Overproduction Timing Errors in Expert Dancers

Cited by 16 publications

References 27 publications

Brain electrical activities of dancers and fast ball sports athletes are different

Brain electrical activities of dancers and fast ball sports athletes are different

Timing Training in Female Soccer Players: Effects on Skilled Movement Performance and Brain Responses

Dancing in Your Head: An Interdisciplinary Review

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