Sensorimotor And Neurophysiological Basis Of Human Movement Studies

History Sings Good News for Musicians Historically, there has been a debate among educators and researchers whether music education plays a significant role in a child’s brain development, intelligence quotient, social development and overall success in life. Many believe the data has been unreliable because there is little to prove with absolute certainty that those who participate in music education were not just born smarter. On the other hand, substantial data has been collected in recent years

Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 15 July 2009 Received in revised

that enable individuals to think and act (see Lakoff and Johnson [1999] for an extended discussion). To date, with the exception of the research by Zaltman and his colleagues (Zaltman 1997; Zaltman and Coulter 1995, 2000), there are no published studies in consumer behavior that focus primarily on embodiment processes at the cognitive unconscious level. Throughout the history of Western culture, the state of one’s body has been interpreted as a material sign of the moral character within (Foucault

assessments are often based on both feelings and reason and that one or the other becomes more prominent depending on the context. They argue that feelings play a central role in consumer decision making and merit serious investigation, which, for this study, means that intertwining mind and body is crucial for creating an unforgettable consumer experience. The effort afoot to restore embodied realism to social scientific inquiry (Johnson 1999; Lakoff and Johnson 1999) has generated some of the most exciting