Human creativity finds in artistic practices one of its most admirable forms. Most of the studies about artistic practices have used qualitative approaches, focusing on the conceptual structures conveyed by the artwork. Few studies have used quantitative approaches with the potential to be generalized. This study has focused on developing a quantitative methodology to characterize an artist’s behavioral patterns while creating an artwork. Inspired by a theoretical framework from animal cognition, we analyzed the decision-making process of an artist while choosing to invest more or less effort in given elements of the art piece. We have video recorded the rehearsals of a dance piece and hand-scored the movement phrases elicited individually by two dancers and quantitatively reconstructed the sequence of movement phrases being performed at each moment. This representation has revealed, implicitly, that the choreographer invested more energy in creating movement sequences, and that certain elements of movement were more prone to several iterations. Our study shows that decision-making processes in artistic practices can be revealed through the use of quantitative methodologies which can be potentially generalized to other choreographic methodologies and styles, thus leading to a better understanding of those artistic practices and, generally, of human creative behavior.

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编舞创作过程中的决策：一种定量方法

人类的创造力在艺术实践中发现了其最令人钦佩的形式之一。大多数关于艺术实践的研究都使用定性方法，侧重于艺术作品所传达的概念结构。很少有研究使用具有推广潜力的定量方法。这项研究的重点是开发一种量化方法来表征艺术家在创作艺术品时的行为模式。受动物认知理论框架的启发，我们分析了艺术家的决策过程，同时选择在艺术作品的给定元素上投入更多或更少的努力。我们录制了一段舞曲排练的视频，并对两名舞者单独引出的动作短语进行了手工评分，并定量重建了每个时刻正在执行的动作短语的序列。这种表现隐含地表明，编舞者在创建动作序列上投入了更多的精力，并且动作的某些元素更倾向于多次迭代。我们的研究表明，艺术实践中的决策过程可以通过使用定量方法来揭示，这些方法可以潜在地推广到其他编舞方法和风格，从而更好地理解这些艺术实践，以及一般来说，人类的创作行为. 编舞者在创建动作序列上投入了更多的精力，并且动作的某些元素更倾向于多次迭代。我们的研究表明，艺术实践中的决策过程可以通过使用定量方法来揭示，这些方法可以潜在地推广到其他编舞方法和风格，从而更好地理解这些艺术实践，以及一般来说，人类的创作行为. 编舞者在创建动作序列上投入了更多的精力，并且动作的某些元素更倾向于多次迭代。我们的研究表明，艺术实践中的决策过程可以通过使用定量方法来揭示，这些方法可以潜在地推广到其他编舞方法和风格，从而更好地理解这些艺术实践，以及一般来说，人类的创作行为.