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Stanislavsky's prescience: the conscious self in the system and active analysis as a theory of mind / Sharon Marie Carnicke ; The improviser's lazy brain: improvisation and cognition / Gunter Lösel ; Devising - embodied creativity in distributed systems / Rick Kemp ; Embodied cognition and Shakespearean performnance / Daren Tunstall ; The remains of ancient action: understanding affect and empathy in Greek drama / Peter Meineck ; Minding implicit constraints in dance improvisation / Pil Hansen ; Applying developmental epistemic cognition to theatre for young audiences / Jeanne Klein ; 4E cognition for directing: Thornton Wilder's Out town and Caryl Churchill's Light shining in Buckinghamshire / Rhonda Blair ; Acting and emotion / Vladimir Mirodan ; Improvising communication in Pleistocene performances / Bruce McConachie ; Ritual transformation an transmission / David Mason ; Communities of gesture: empaty and embodiment in Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance company's 100 migrations / Ariel Nereson ; Creative storytelling, crossing boundaries, high-impact learning and social engagement / Nancy Kindelan ; From banana phones to the bard: the developmental psychology of acting / Thalia R. Goldstein ; "I'm giving everybody notes using his body": framing actors' observation of performance / Claire Syler ; Acting technique, Jacques Lecoq and emodied meaning / Rick Kemp ; Systems theory, enaction and performing arts / Gabriele Sofia ; Watching movement: phenomenology, cognition, performance / Stanton B. Garner, Jr. ; Attention to theatrical performances / James Hamilton ; Emergence, meaning and presence: an interdisciplinary approach to a disciplinary question / Amy Cook ; Relishing performance: rasa as participatory sense-making / Erin B. Mee ; The self, ethics, agency and tragedy / David Palmer ; Aethetics and the sensible / John Lutterbie ; Talk this dance: on the conceptualisation of dance as fictive conversation / Ana Margarida Abrantes, Esther Pascual ; Distributed cognition: studying theatre in the wild / Evelyn Tribble, Robin Dixon ; A theatrical intervention to lower the risk of Alzheimer's and othejr forms of dementia / Tony Noice, Helga Noice ; The performance of caring: theatre, empathetic communication and healthcare / Rick Kemp, Rachel DeSoto.Jacson ; Awareness performing: practice to protocol / Experience Bryan ; Imagining the ecologies of autism / Melissa Trimingham, Nicola Shaughnessy ;Towards consilience: integrating performance history with the co-evolution of our species / Bruce McConachie

The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science integrates key findings from the cognitive sciences (cognitive psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary studies and relevant social sciences) with insights from theatre and performance studies. This rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field dynamically advances critical and theoretical knowledge, as well as driving innovation in practice. The anthology includes 30 specially commissioned chapters, many written by authors who have been at the cutting-edge of research and practice in the field over the last 15 years. These authors offer many empirical answers to four significant questions:?How can performances in theatre, dance and other media achieve more emotional and social impact??How can we become more adept teachers and learners of performance both within and outside of classrooms??What can the cognitive sciences reveal about the nature of drama and human nature in general??How can knowledge transfer, from a synthesis of science and performance, assist professionals such as nurses, care-givers, therapists and emergency workers in their jobs??A wide-ranging and authoritative guide, The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science is an accessible tool for not only students, but practitioners and researchers in the arts and sciences as well