Corporal artistic training influences attention: a pilot study

Percept Mot Skills. 2014 Jun;118(3):818-32. doi: 10.2466/24.22.PMS.118k21w2. Epub 2014 Apr 2.

Abstract

This study assessed the effect of the Body Rhythmics (BRIM) on actors' attentional processes. BRIM is a combination of exercises using numbers and rules that enact musical parameters in the moving body through displacements. Male actors (N = 22) participated in the study: 7 in the BRIM (Study) group and 15 in the Control group (groups were equivalent on mean Raven's IQ). The Continuous Performance Test (CPT-II) was administered before and after an intensive period of BRIM training. There was no significant difference on the CPT-II before training. Group results for before vs after training showed a significant difference for reaction time for the Study group. There was also a trend to increased errors of commission in the Study group after BRIM training.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Art*
  • Attention / physiology*
  • Dancing / physiology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Music / psychology
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Pilot Projects
  • Psychomotor Performance / physiology*
  • Young Adult