Practice, Research, and Cognition in Devised Performance

This interdisciplinary study explores devised performance and practice research at the intersection of the cognitive sciences and arts.

It interrogates relationships between epistemology and cognition, action and aesthetics, and first-person experience and third-person investigation. Pairing practice research methodologies from theatre and performance with cognitive and neuroscientific approaches-both theoretical and empirical-it reveals new insights into the practices of collective creatio...