Abstract
Ancient and culturally universal, dance pervades many areas of life and has multiple benefits. In this article, we provide a conceptual framework and systematic review, as a guide for researching the neuroscience of dance. We identified relevant articles following PRISMA guidelines, and summarised and evaluated all original results. We identified avenues for future research in: the interactive and collective aspects of dance; groove; dance performance; dance observation; and dance therapy. Furthermore, the interactive and collective aspects of dance constitute a vital part of the field but have received almost no attention from a neuroscientific perspective so far. Dance and music engage overlapping brain networks, including common regions involved in perception, action, and emotion. In music and dance, rhythm, melody, and harmony are processed in an active, sustained pleasure cycle giving rise to action, emotion, and learning, led by activity in specific hedonic brain networks. The neuroscience of dance is an exciting field, which may yield information concerning links between psychological processes and behaviour, human flourishing, and the concept of eudaimonia. A corrigendum to the original article is available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105692
Original language | English |
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Article number | 105197 |
Number of pages | 29 |
Journal | Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews |
Volume | 150 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jul 2023 |
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© 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Keywords
- Neuroimaging
- Brain
- Dance therapy
- Dance movement therapy
- Dance training
- Improvisation
- Eudaimonia
- Interpersonal synchronisation
- Musical training
- Dance imagery
- Hedonia
- Motivation
- Music
- Collective, interactive, and social aspects of dance
- Dance
- Groove
- Conceptual framework
- Dance performance
- Dance observation
- Communication