More from Duke University

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BYkIL0EufQ&noredirect=1

An interesting article....

http://www.dancemagazine.com/issues/July-2010/Your-Body-Memory-Builders

Existing Studies

A quiz devised by Duke University to collect data on visual learning...

http://dukedpn.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6JAM4STD7cVLUK8

Visual Memory

Dancers learn by watching, doing, marking, and creating imagery that helps to retain movement patterns. These approaches may have developed intuitively, but recent brain studies in memory confirm they were on the right track. 

Consider the work of movement science pioneers Lulu Sweigard and Mabel Todd (founders of Ideokinesis), who heavily employed visualization in their methods. They intuited the mirror neuron theory, which holds that there are special groups of neurons in the brain that respond in a similar fashion whether watching or doing a movement.

Dancers are lay brain scientists of sorts, on the forefront of understanding the interplay between learning, memory, and the relationship between mind and body.

Auditory Memory

-The Auditory memory is the ability to process information presented orally, analyse it mentally, and store it to be recalled later.

 

-Those with a strong capacity for this type of memory are called auditory learners.

- The ability to learn from oral instructions and explanations is a fundamental skill required throughout life.

Kinaesthetic Memory

Kinaesthetic Memory is the sensation by which bodily position, weight, muscle tension, and movement are perceived. How we receive information in this form is by using our senses (shown in diagram above) to enable our body to memorize the information going in.

HOW does this memorizing take place?

Scientists have discovered that there are a large number of internal brain structures which work together with the input and output brain structures to form fleeting images in the mind. (2003) Using these images, we learn to interpret input signals, process them, and formulate output responses in a deliberate, conscious,way.

But after a while, the "seeing-thinking-doing" gradually becomes "seeing-doing" because your muscles seem to "know" and "remember" just what to do. What you're learning now is speed, i.e. how to perform the task carefully and quickly. That's muscle memory.

Scientists call this "kinaesthetic memory" or "neuro-muscular facilitation" and they speak of "sensory-motor" learning, since you are combining sensing input, i.e. what you see with your eyes, with motor output, i.e. what you do with your body. 

- Oliver Gaviglioli and Ian Harris (1 Jan 2003). Thinking Visually: Step-by-step Exercises That Promote Visual, Auditory and Kinaesthetic Learning. England: Pembroke Publishing Ltd. 25-54.

Psychological stuff

As beginners at psychological frameworks, an important start to improving knowledge was to learn from the basic level of how do we remember?

We wanted to know how your memory goes through the motions in order to recollect. Does it remember movement more, less, easier, harder?

We are intrigued...