Results for: "Embodied Cognition"
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The Triple Irony of Asking How Dancers Feel

When I searched for positive first-person accounts of sensorimotor experience, AI did better than the humans. That is the triple irony — and it says something uncomfortable about what happens when perceptual capacity becomes tribal identity.

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Baseworks Movement Principles: Toronto

This workshop will introduce a unique perspective on creativity and physical education. Participants will be introduced to the key concepts and principles of Baseworks, gain insights from our research, and learn practical strategies for understanding, performing, and teaching any aspect of physical movement.

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Pursuit for Fluidity and Grace in Movement

In this VS, we dig into the concept of Connecting Strategy and uncover ways in which one can effectively and efficiently move better during one’s practice, both for the practice of Baseworks itself, as well as any other movement modalities.

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The Mystery of Proprioceptive Awareness

Most people have felt a localized sensation in an active muscle—something neutral, immediate, and not pain. The scientific literature has no name for it, and no established conceptual category for it either. This article explores why this perceptual phenomenon falls through the cracks of neuroscience, what its most plausible neural substrate is, and what becomes possible when it’s deliberately cultivated.

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Why you may want to commit

I see more and more people these days who jump from one thing to another without giving anything a more augmented try. It’s no surprise, given the plethora of choices and limited time. The irony is the more sensational or readily appealing and available something is, the faster people tend to both go for it, and before long, opt-out…..

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