Comments on: Ballet and the mirror system http://mindhacks.com/2005/01/12/ballet-and-the-mirror-system/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Mon, 20 May 2013 15:51:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: tangophilia blog http://mindhacks.com/2005/01/12/ballet-and-the-mirror-system/#comment-8594 Tue, 22 Mar 2005 06:12:34 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2005/01/12/ballet-and-the-mirror-system/#comment-8594 Human Do, Human See

This article, Human See, Human Do: Ballet Dancers’ Brains Reveal The Art Of Imitation, describes recent research conducted into understanding the “mirror system” of our brains. The “mirror system” activates both when we practice a movement and w…

]]> By: Alex Fradera http://mindhacks.com/2005/01/12/ballet-and-the-mirror-system/#comment-8593 Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:10:08 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2005/01/12/ballet-and-the-mirror-system/#comment-8593 Great stuff! Beatriz is doing great work, and Dan Glaser, one of the other authors, brought it up at a discussion he was hosting yesterday at the Dana centre (on Brain-fingerprinting and its legal implications – I will put something about this up at some point).
I have long wondered whether these effects translate across to people who are experts but only in a virtual sense – e.g. someone whose only experience of capoeira is through playing Tekken 3 (but damn, they’ve played it a lot). Very hmm-able.
On a personal note, I am jonesing for the first-hand capoeira experience, but suffering from a particularly debilitating bout of back failure, I can only hope. There is a capoeira party tomorrow, but naturally, my painkillers don’t mix with capirinhas. Oh, well…

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