Neuroscience of dance is an emerging field with important applications related to health and well-being, as dance has shown potential to foster adaptive neuroplasticity and is increasingly popular as a therapeutic activity or adjunct therapy for people living with conditions such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. However, the multimodal nature of dance presents challenges to researchers aiming to identify mechanisms involved when dance is used to combat neurodegeneration or support healthy ageing. Requiring simultaneous engagement of motor and cognitive domains, dancing includes coordination of systems involved in timing, memory and spatial learning. Studies on dance to this point rely primarily on assessments of brain dynamics and structure through pre/post-tests or studies on expertise, as traditional brain imaging modalities restrict participant movement to avoid movement-related artefacts. In this paper, we describe the process of designing and implementing a study that uses mobile brain/body imaging (MoBI) to investigate real-time changes in brain dynamics and behaviour during the process of learning and performing a novel dance choreography. We show the potential for new insights to emerge from the coordinated collection of movement and brain-based data, and the implications of these in an emerging field whose medium is motion.

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舞蹈中的移动脑/身体成像：应用研究的动态跨学科领域

舞蹈神经科学是一个新兴领域，具有与健康和福祉相关的重要应用，因为舞蹈已显示出促进适应性神经可塑性的潜力，并且作为帕金森氏症和阿尔茨海默氏症等疾病患者的治疗活动或辅助疗法越来越受欢迎。然而，舞蹈的多模态性质给旨在确定舞蹈用于对抗神经变性或支持健康老龄化时所涉及的机制的研究人员带来了挑战。需要运动和认知领域的同时参与，舞蹈包括涉及时间、记忆和空间学习的系统的协调。迄今为止，对舞蹈的研究主要依赖于通过前/后测试或专业知识研究对大脑动态和结构的评估，因为传统的大脑成像方式会限制参与者的运动以避免与运动相关的伪影。在本文中，我们描述了设计和实施一项研究的过程，该研究使用移动脑/身体成像 (MoBI) 来研究在学习和表演新颖舞蹈编排过程中大脑动态和行为的实时变化。我们展示了从运动和基于大脑的数据的协调收集中产生新见解的潜力，以及这些在以运动为媒介的新兴领域中的意义。我们描述了设计和实施一项研究的过程，该研究使用移动脑/身体成像 (MoBI) 来调查学习和表演新颖舞蹈编排过程中大脑动态和行为的实时变化。我们展示了从运动和基于大脑的数据的协调收集中产生新见解的潜力，以及这些在以运动为媒介的新兴领域中的意义。我们描述了设计和实施一项研究的过程，该研究使用移动脑/身体成像 (MoBI) 来调查学习和表演新颖舞蹈编排过程中大脑动态和行为的实时变化。我们展示了从运动和基于大脑的数据的协调收集中产生新见解的潜力，以及这些在以运动为媒介的新兴领域中的意义。