Emotional Movement Summary
This article was taken from a blog entry by someone who holds a psychology masters referring to an experiment that was carried out to investigate emotions and how the audience was able to grasp certain emotions based on lighting. The audience watched the exact same dance routine either in full light or no light at all with only 6 small point lights attached to the dancer’s wrists, ankles, and shoulders. It was interesting to learn about their findings. As their experiment concluded, based on past works, about 63% of people could accurately identify the emotions with 13 points of light but in this experiment, 62% of participants could identify the emotions correctly with only 6 points of light. Thus, it was further concluded that the amount of light on the dancer does not significantly affect the ability for the audience to grasp the emotions portrayed by the dancer. Hence, allowing the dancer’s presented emotions to still successfully reach and evoke the audience’s emotions as well. Primarily, this experiment dealt with the Occipital Lobes because it was mainly based on perceptions, being the primary visual cortex.
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Sangeeta Bahadur
