Perception Movement Action Research Centre

Centre for Integrated Healthcare Research

Tuesday 20 November 2007
at St. Cecilia's Hall, Niddry Street, Cowgate, Edinburgh

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The Perception Movement Action Research Centre is pleased to host the first Brazelton Study Day in Scotland for some time, in collaboration with the Centre for Integrated Healthcare Research. It will be a day of informative, inspiring presentation and discussion.

This Study Day will interest health professionals and academics who work with parents and very young babies up to 2 months old and premature babies. Speakers from the Brazelton Centre will describe the Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale and its use in clinical practice, intervention and research. Speakers from PMARC and CIHR will describe their research with premature babies and mother-infant interaction.

The Perception Movement Action Research Centre (PMARC) has been founded to support the multi-faceted, interdisciplinary collaborative science required to understand fundamental questions of perceiving and acting in the world. Membership includes colleagues from Physics, Psychology, Music, Medicine, Informatics, Philosophy, and Sports Science both here in Edinburgh and abroad. Prospective members are welcome. For further information, or to join the PMARC mailing list, please email pmarc@ed.ac.uk.

Music and Movement:
Challenges to Cognitive Neuroscience?

was the inaugural symposium of the

Perception Movement Action Research Centre

held on Monday 22 January 2007
at St. Cecilia's Hall, Niddry Street, Cowgate, Edinburgh

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The perception-in-action labs were very pleased to be host the inaugural symposium of the Perception Movement Action Research Centre in collaboration with the Institute for Music in Human and Social Development. It was a wonderful day with informative, inspiring discussion. PMARC thanks all those who spoke and who attended for contributing to an excellent beginning.

Movement and music are fundamental features of human life and human psychology, yet the prevalent theories of 'cognition' in psychology together with available research methodologies from neuroscience, such as cumbersome brain imaging techniques, do little to address these basic human features. This symposium will present international research at the forefront of the science behind movement and music, and demonstrate how these features of human life illuminate not only the workings of the human brain, but also how our experiences as feeling, intentional beings manifest. From early infancy and the primitive musicality of the mother-infant dyad, through motor control in sports and dance, to modern brain imaging studies of the neuropsychology behind music and movement, this symposium will address the issues normally eschewed by cognitive neuroscience.

The Perception Movement Action Research Centre (PMARC) has been founded to support the multi-faceted, interdisciplinary collaborative science required to understand these fundamental questions. Colleagues from Physics, Psychology, Music, Informatics, Philosophy, and Sports Science both here in Edinburgh and abroad are welcome. For further information, or to join the PMARC mailing list, please email pmarc@ed.ac.uk. A web site, www.pmarc.ed.ac.uk, and seminar series will follow.

these are the web pages of the

perception-in-action laboratories

What do a baby sucking for milk and a golfer putting a ball have in common with an echolocating bat landing on a perch? In our laboratories we consider different forms of prospective guidance of movement, using echolocation, vision and other sensory means, in order to uncover common underlying principles of prospective control.

Through these pages you can read about who we are, what we do, and where you can read more about us. Where do you want to go?

Perception-in-Action Laboratories
The University of Edinburgh
Holyrood Road, St. Leonard's Land
Edinburgh EH8 8AQ
Scotland