Mind-body awareness for singers : unleashing optimal performance / Karen Leigh-Post.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leigh-Post, Karen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voice.

Mind and body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Diego, California : Plural Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Provides a fundamental understanding of functional anatomy and cognitive neuroscience to guide singers and teachers of singing to unlocking the mystery of the mind-body link involved in the complex audio-motor behavior that is singing. It includes practical application exercises that train the singer to work with, rather than against, the systems of singing to integrate the cognitive and conscious with the unconscious sensory and motor processes of our nervous system.

Contents:

Contents; List of Practical Application Exercises (PAEs); Foreword; Introduction; Illustrated Guide to Neural Anatomy; Acknowledgments; 1. The Role of Cognition in Sensorimotor Processing for Optimal Performance: "I Think, Therefore I Sing!"; What Is Sensorimotor Processing?; Sensorimotor Processing Loop; Systems of Singing; 2. Sensory Information Processing: Perception of Our Environment and Ourselves; Transmission of Sensory Information; Perception; Attentional Focus and Receptivity; Integration Mechanisms: The Reticular Formation and Arousal (Awareness)

Heightened Awareness, or MindfulnessTwo-Way Transmission-"Top-Down" Processing From Upper-Level Controls; Selective and Executive Attention; Selective Attention and a "Happy Body"; Selective Attention and a "Smart Body"; Perception and Interpretation; Active Perception; Passive Perception; Active and Passive Memory and Association; Perception and Integration of Active and Passive Processes; Interpretation and Auditory Perception; Awareness, Novelty, and Constancy; "Brain Time" and Perceptual Awareness; Coping With Change: Novelty Versus Constancy; Summary

Perception of One's Own Voice While SingingAuditory Perception; Multimodal Perception; Somatic (Body) Senses; The Vestibular System (Sensory); Purposeful Perception in Review; 3. Planning Voluntary Behavior; Introduction-Who Is in Charge?; Volition, Free Will, and Executive Ignorance; Research Trends in Voluntary Motor Behavior; Willed and Sensorimotor Intentions; What & When Planning-"What Are We Thinking?"; Summary; Learning and Memory; Anatomy of Learning and Memory; The Function of Memory and Higher-Level Perceptual Processing; The Working Memory

When Perception Turns to Planning-Images and ImageryDefining Images and Imagery; Training the Singer's Brain: Practical Application of Imagery for Developing Musical and Vocal-Motor Expertise; Summary; 4. Motor Output Processing; Introduction; Musculoskeletal Structures -General Anatomy and Function; Skeletal (Striated) Muscle Function; Axial, Proximal, and Distal Controls; Levels of Control; Lower-Level Controls; Upper-Level Controls; Developing Expertise; Postural and Respiratory Controls-"We've Got Your Back"; Reflexive Control Systems and Special Acts of Respiration

Postural and Respiratory Controls-Lower Torso, Neck, and HeadSummary; 5. Putting It All Together: Planning, Executing, and Monitoring a Rhythmically Entrained Performance; Rhythm and Rhythmic Entrainment; Predictability and Variability; Self-Organization of Forced and Spontaneous Entrainment; Summary; Practical Application-Putting It All Together With Rhythmic Entrainment; Simple Systems and Wide-Ranging Cohesion; Promoting Rhythmic Entrainment of Ongoing Sequences of Behavior; Rhythmic Entrainment and Training the Singer's Brain; Concluding Comments; Glossary; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-59756-660-8

OCLC:

898422043