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It Matters How You Move: An Ethnographic Memoir on Collaboration Between Dance Studies and Neuroscience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2017

Janet O'Shea
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Abstract

This essay reflects on a collaboration between a neuroscientist and a dance scholar that took the form of a scientific study testing the cognitive benefits of Filipino martial arts (FMA). This piece reflects on the collaboration as it raised methodological issues regarding disciplinarity and cross-disciplinary exchange. This discussion extends to an examination of the intellectual underpinnings and assumptions of the sciences and the humanities, signaling where they can meet and why it is not only productive but also imperative that they do so.

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cognitive neuroscienceDance Studiesethnographic memoirFilipino martial artsmartial arts studiesneuroplasticityphilosophy of mind

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Dance Research Journal , Volume 49 , Issue 3 , December 2017 , pp. 6 - 23
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Copyright © Dance Studies Association 2017 

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