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Mind-body awareness for singers : unleashing optimal performance /
Provides a fundamental understanding of functional anatomy and cognitive neuroscience to guide singers and teachers of singing to unlocking the mystery of the mind-body link involved in the complex audio-motor behavior that is singing. It includes practical application exercises that train the singe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Diego, California :
Plural Publishing,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Practical Application Exercises (PAEs); Foreword; Introduction; Illustrated Guide to Neural Anatomy; Acknowledgments; 1. The Role of Cognition in Sensorimotor Processing for Optimal Performance: "I Think, Therefore I Sing!"; What Is Sensorimotor Processing?; Sensorimotor Processing Loop; Systems of Singing; 2. Sensory Information Processing: Perception of Our Environment and Ourselves; Transmission of Sensory Information; Perception; Attentional Focus and Receptivity; Integration Mechanisms: The Reticular Formation and Arousal (Awareness).
- Heightened Awareness, or MindfulnessTwo-Way Transmission-"Top-Down" Processing From Upper-Level Controls; Selective and Executive Attention; Selective Attention and a "Happy Body"; Selective Attention and a "Smart Body"; Perception and Interpretation; Active Perception; Passive Perception; Active and Passive Memory and Association; Perception and Integration of Active and Passive Processes; Interpretation and Auditory Perception; Awareness, Novelty, and Constancy; "Brain Time" and Perceptual Awareness; Coping With Change: Novelty Versus Constancy; Summary.
- Perception of One's Own Voice While SingingAuditory Perception; Multimodal Perception; Somatic (Body) Senses; The Vestibular System (Sensory); Purposeful Perception in Review; 3. Planning Voluntary Behavior; Introduction-Who Is in Charge?; Volition, Free Will, and Executive Ignorance; Research Trends in Voluntary Motor Behavior; Willed and Sensorimotor Intentions; What & When Planning-"What Are We Thinking?"; Summary; Learning and Memory; Anatomy of Learning and Memory; The Function of Memory and Higher-Level Perceptual Processing; The Working Memory.
- When Perception Turns to Planning-Images and ImageryDefining Images and Imagery; Training the Singer's Brain: Practical Application of Imagery for Developing Musical and Vocal-Motor Expertise; Summary; 4. Motor Output Processing; Introduction; Musculoskeletal Structures -General Anatomy and Function; Skeletal (Striated) Muscle Function; Axial, Proximal, and Distal Controls; Levels of Control; Lower-Level Controls; Upper-Level Controls; Developing Expertise; Postural and Respiratory Controls-"We've Got Your Back"; Reflexive Control Systems and Special Acts of Respiration.
- Postural and Respiratory Controls-Lower Torso, Neck, and HeadSummary; 5. Putting It All Together: Planning, Executing, and Monitoring a Rhythmically Entrained Performance; Rhythm and Rhythmic Entrainment; Predictability and Variability; Self-Organization of Forced and Spontaneous Entrainment; Summary; Practical Application-Putting It All Together With Rhythmic Entrainment; Simple Systems and Wide-Ranging Cohesion; Promoting Rhythmic Entrainment of Ongoing Sequences of Behavior; Rhythmic Entrainment and Training the Singer's Brain; Concluding Comments; Glossary; References; Index.