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SUMMARY:Parkinson’s Rehabilitation using Interactive Dance Technology - 
 Dr Matthew Woolhouse\, Wolfson College and  Associate Professor McMaster U
 niversity
DTSTART:20180214T130000Z
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CONTACT:Graham Allen
DESCRIPTION:\nThis talk will present an overview of dance research underta
 ken in my lab at McMaster University\, Ontario. Topics will include: (1) g
 roup dancing and interpersonal memory (involving "silent-disco" experiment
 s that surreptitiously transmitted music at different tempi to individuals
  within groups)\; (2) eye movements made in response to dance (in which th
 e effects of gestures and synchrony on fixations and saccades were investi
 gated)\; and (3) developing dance technology for the rehabilitation of peo
 ple with Parkinson's disease. Guiding much of this research is a belief th
 at…\n\n“Cultural patterning contributes to the selection of those mech
 anisms that transform affect and cognition into meaningful patterns of bod
 y movement\, which arrest attention both because they are intentional and 
 extraordinary.”\n\nHanna\, J. L. (1987). To dance is human: A theory of 
 nonverbal communication. University of Chicago Press
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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