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Miura Lab
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A lab that scientifically studies dancing as a social act to uncover human sociality and creativity.
AboutAbout the lab
Studying dancing scientifically to uncover sociality and creativity.
The Miura Lab investigates the act of human dancing using scientific methods.
It takes up situations where people express themselves with their bodies, such as ballet, street dance, and playing musical instruments.
Through movement measurement and breathing recordings, the lab clarifies how different parts of the body are coordinated.
From there, it explores how human sociality and creativity come about.
Key terms
- Embodied cognitive science
- A field that seeks to understand the workings of the mind in terms of bodily movement and the relationship between the body and its environment
- Dance science
- A field that measures dancers' movements and how injuries occur, and investigates them using scientific methods
- Coordination
- Multiple parts of the body, or the movements of multiple people, working together by aligning their timing with one another
NewsLab news
Research by students received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the Area Meeting of the Transformative Research Areas (A) 'Face-Body Design'
A co-authored paper that Associate Professor Miura contributed to received the Encouragement Paper Award from the Japanese Cognitive Science Society
ResearchResearch themes
The lab measures acts of bodily expression such as dancing and playing instruments, and investigates the mechanisms of movement. It deals with the process by which people synchronize their movements with others and the process by which new movements arise.
*Illustrative imageMeasuring dance movements
The lab measures ballet and street dance movements to investigate what skilled dancers are doing. It also examines the pressure on the foot inside pointe shoes and how dancers breathe while dancing.
*Illustrative imageCoordinating movements between people
The lab investigates the process by which people's movements become aligned when two or more people move together. Through experiments, it tests how touching each other and watching a partner affect body sway and stability.
*Illustrative imageMotor learning and expertise
The lab deals with the process of acquiring new movements. It also studies the phenomenon in which the body is drawn into a rhythm, such as the groove of music.
MembersFaculty
- Akito Miura
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Russian ballet pointe shoes, 1997, silk - Bata Shoe Museum - DSC00244” Daderot / CC0 (cropped)
- Measuring dance movements: “Pointe shoe sole” Lambtron / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Coordinating movements between people: “Two-Man Felling Saw and Springboard” Eugene Zelenko / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Motor learning and expertise: “Tennis practice wall at Central Park in Leeton” Bidgee / CC BY-SA 3.0 au (cropped)
- Related lab (Sugimori Lab): “Red jigsaw puzzle piece on green pieces” Profpcde / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kawasaki Lab): “Oppstilling-2” Oslo police / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Sekine Lab): “Bunraku Sanbaso puppet” 氏子 / CC0 (cropped)
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