FENS-EJN Journal club Episode 3: What Watching Dance Does to Your Brain

What happens in your brain when you watch a live dance performance? In this episode of the FENS–EJN Journal Club, Dr Hanna Poikonen (ETH Zurich, GAIA Lab, and Wise Motion Community) joins Matteo Piumatti to discuss her study “Cortical oscillations are modified by expertise in dance and music: evidence from live dance audience.”

They explore how dancers, musicians, and non-experts engage differently at the neural level when watching live art, what brain synchrony tells us about expertise, and why taking neuroscience out of the lab might bring us closer to real life.