AUTHOR=Carey Katy , Moran Aidan , Rooney Brendan TITLE=Learning Choreography: An Investigation of Motor Imagery, Attentional Effort, and Expertise in Modern Dance JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=10 YEAR=2019 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00422 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00422 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
The study of choreography in dance offers researchers an intriguing window on the relationship between expertise, imagination, and attention in the creative process of learning new movements. The present study investigated an unresolved issue in this field – namely, the effects of expertise on motor imagery (MI; or the mental rehearsal of actions without engaging in the actual movements involved) and attentional effort (as measured by pupil dilation) on dancers while they engaged in the processes of learning, performing, and imagining a dance movement. Participants were 18 female dancers (mean age = 23,