Awareness of embodiment enhances enjoyment and engages sensorimotor cortices.

ABSTRACT: Whether in performing arts, sporting, or everyday contexts, when we watch others move, we tend to enjoy bodies moving in synchrony. Our enjoyment of body movements is further enhanced by our own prior experience with performing those movements, or our 'embodied experience'. The relationships between movement synchrony and enjoyment, as well as embodied experience and movement enjoyment, are well known. The interaction between enjoyment of movements, synchrony, and embodiment is less well understood, and may be central for developing new approaches for enriching social interaction. To examine the interplay between movement enjoyment, synchrony, and embodiment, we asked participants to copy another person's movements as accurately as possible, thereby gaining embodied experience of movement

SUBMITTER: Moffat R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11240146 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature