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Dance Training Shapes Action Perception and Its Neural Implementation within the Young and Older Adult Brain
Joint Authors
Cross, Emily S.
Kirsch, Louise P.
Diersch, Nadine
Sumanapala, Dilini K.
Source
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-20, 20 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-07-12
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
20
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
How we perceive others in action is shaped by our prior experience.
Many factors influence brain responses when observing others in action, including training in a particular physical skill, such as sport or dance, and also general development and aging processes.
Here, we investigate how learning a complex motor skill shapes neural and behavioural responses among a dance-naïve sample of 20 young and 19 older adults.
Across four days, participants physically rehearsed one set of dance sequences, observed a second set, and a third set remained untrained.
Functional MRI was obtained prior to and immediately following training.
Participants’ behavioural performance on motor and visual tasks improved across the training period, with younger adults showing steeper performance gains than older adults.
At the brain level, both age groups demonstrated decreased sensorimotor cortical engagement after physical training, with younger adults showing more pronounced decreases in inferior parietal activity compared to older adults.
Neural decoding results demonstrate that among both age groups, visual and motor regions contain experience-specific representations of new motor learning.
By combining behavioural measures of performance with univariate and multivariate measures of brain activity, we can start to build a more complete picture of age-related changes in experience-dependent plasticity.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Kirsch, Louise P.& Diersch, Nadine& Sumanapala, Dilini K.& Cross, Emily S.. 2018. Dance Training Shapes Action Perception and Its Neural Implementation within the Young and Older Adult Brain. Neural Plasticity،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-20.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1210158
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Kirsch, Louise P.…[et al.]. Dance Training Shapes Action Perception and Its Neural Implementation within the Young and Older Adult Brain. Neural Plasticity No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-20.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1210158
American Medical Association (AMA)
Kirsch, Louise P.& Diersch, Nadine& Sumanapala, Dilini K.& Cross, Emily S.. Dance Training Shapes Action Perception and Its Neural Implementation within the Young and Older Adult Brain. Neural Plasticity. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-20.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1210158
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1210158