Engaging Audiences asks what cognitive science can teachscholars of theatre studiesabout spectator response in the theatre. Bruce McConachieintroduces insights from neuroscience and evolutionary theory to examine the dynamics of conscious attention, empathy and memory in theatre goers."
Engaging Audiences asks what cognitive science can teachscholars of theatre studiesabout spectator response in the theatre. Bruce McConachieintroduces...
All performance depends upon our abilities to create, perceive, remember, imagine and empathize. This book provides an introduction to the evolutionary and cognitive foundations of theatrical performing and spectating and argues that this scientific perspective challenges some of the major assumptions about what takes place in the theatre.
All performance depends upon our abilities to create, perceive, remember, imagine and empathize. This book provides an introduction to the evolutionar...
