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==== proprioception as an aesthetic sense, Barbara Montero: ==== | ==== proprioception as an aesthetic sense, Barbara Montero: ==== | ||
- | **What dancers are good at and swaggering drunk people lack.** | + | What dancers are good at and swaggering drunk people lack. |
- | **Just as a painting can be beautiful, a movement (of a dancer) can be beautiful to watch.** | + | Just as a painting can be beautiful, a movement (of a dancer) can be beautiful to watch. |
- | **'One can deem a certain movement beautiful based on one's proprioceptive experience of the movement. In a certain sense an observer can proprioceive the beauty of another' | + | "One can deem a certain movement beautiful based on one's proprioceptive experience of the movement. In a certain sense an observer can proprioceive the beauty of another' |
I think you can clearly see this in the audience at boxing matches, when audience members mimic the punches thrown in the match. Also I think this extends to animal movement; when we see a funny walking monkey or a diving dolphin or birds hovering on some air currents. That makes you sort of feel the way they feel. | I think you can clearly see this in the audience at boxing matches, when audience members mimic the punches thrown in the match. Also I think this extends to animal movement; when we see a funny walking monkey or a diving dolphin or birds hovering on some air currents. That makes you sort of feel the way they feel. | ||
So vision and proprioception work together. | So vision and proprioception work together. | ||
- | **This effect even works with photographs of movement:** | + | This effect even works with photographs of movement: |
- | **'it has been shown that subjects perceiving static photographs of an individual in motion are more likely to mistake the position of the individual as being further along in the action than as being in a position that is prior to that in the photograph, indicating that even in perceiving static images, we can represent dynamic information.'** | + | "it has been shown that subjects perceiving static photographs of an individual in motion are more likely to mistake the position of the individual as being further along in the action than as being in a position that is prior to that in the photograph, indicating that even in perceiving static images, we can represent dynamic information." |
- | **Even something as simple as a line can carry a sense of movement (Nike swoosh):** | + | Even something as simple as a line can carry a sense of movement (Nike swoosh): |
- | **'Subjects tend to perceive geometrical figures in a way that is consistent with how that figure is naturally drawn: if they see a circle being traced by a point of light that speeds up along the top and bottom of the circle and slows down along the sides, subjects tend to perceive an ellipse rather than a circle, which is consistent with the fact that we slow down while drawing sharp curves.'** | + | "Subjects tend to perceive geometrical figures in a way that is consistent with how that figure is naturally drawn: if they see a circle being traced by a point of light that speeds up along the top and bottom of the circle and slows down along the sides, subjects tend to perceive an ellipse rather than a circle, which is consistent with the fact that we slow down while drawing sharp curves." |
In my own view we use proprioception not just for movement but also for size, for instance to feel the size of a room. You know.. in the way giant cave can be overwhelming to enter. And you think, bloody hell that's big! Probably it also works for looking at art-objects, | In my own view we use proprioception not just for movement but also for size, for instance to feel the size of a room. You know.. in the way giant cave can be overwhelming to enter. And you think, bloody hell that's big! Probably it also works for looking at art-objects, | ||
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