Comments on: Balance between cultures: equilibrium training

By: Balance between cultures: equilibrium training « Simply Circus

Balance between cultures: equilibrium training « Simply Circus — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:10:35 +0000

[...] at the Neuro Anthropology website, Greg Downey has posted a version of the equilibrium research he presented at the American Anthropology Association annual meeting. This version is [...]

By: Parana

Parana — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:01:20 +0000

I would love to receive the whole article about it if possible.
I am a Capoeira Instructor with more than 14 years of experience and I also work as a Massage Therapist, Personal Training, Back Pain Management and Children with special needs.

As far my knowledge allows I believe Capoeira uses 3 stages of balance: dynamic, static and recovery balance.

For example: a cartwheel stop in middle of it, go down touch the head on the floor, both legs come down (without touch the toes on the floor) and then straight back up again, finishing the cartwheel on the other side. My knowledge is not even comparable to yours in terms of physiological response, but I believe every stage of the movement required different neurological impulses from the brain, which by all means that every stage requires different kind of balance.

Great work

By: Nature/Nurture: Slash To The Rescue « Neuroanthropology

Nature/Nurture: Slash To The Rescue « Neuroanthropology — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:48:24 +0000

[...] brain and our everyday life or the role of embodiment in health. Greg does much the same with his work on balance. Anthropologists have already reworked our ideas of human “nature,” recognizing that culture is [...]

By: In praise of partial explanation (and flowcharts) « Neuroanthropology

In praise of partial explanation (and flowcharts) « Neuroanthropology — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:15:57 +0000

[...] back over my posts, is definitely trending steadily upward (see, for example, talent diagrams and balance diagrams). Although I take Prof. Quinn’s cautionary note to heart, something like a flowchart, I believe, [...]

By: Measuring Process Not Belief « Neuroanthropology

Measuring Process Not Belief « Neuroanthropology — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:52:08 +0000

[...] How would he or she play the game? Like Shane Battier, mixing some ethnographic street ball with some polished lab play, or more broadly moving between different worlds of academic success and meshing them together into something unique. I know my own moves best (not that I’ve schooled anyone… yet), so here’s how I covered a neuroanthropological approach to measuring craving and compulsive involvement, with a subsequent post that details how I meshed neurological processes, subjective experiences and specific problems into a reliable scale. I believe the same approach can be developed for a wide range of psychosocial or neuroanthropological processes. For a broader view on this problem, see my post on the subjective brain or how Greg came to understand balance as a neuroanthropological process. [...]

By: Months of the Year: Neuroanthropology 2008 « Neuroanthropology

Months of the Year: Neuroanthropology 2008 « Neuroanthropology — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:22:05 +0000

[...] was one of our most substantive months. Greg posted a great example of neuroanthropology in action, Balance between cultures: equilibrium training. This post summarized a good part of Greg’s research on sport and dance cross-culturally, while [...]

By: Charles Mark

Charles Mark — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:40:23 +0000

Thank you for the article. It is scholarly and informative. I needed this information for the kind of work I do in New Jersey.

My best wishes,

Charles Mark

By: Os prémios para os melhores posts em blogs de antropologia em 2008 « Comunidade Imaginada

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:01:30 +0000

[...] Cross-Cultural Research Balance between cultures: equilibrium training [...]

By: The “Best of Anthro 2008″ Prizes « Neuroanthropology

The “Best of Anthro 2008″ Prizes « Neuroanthropology — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:34:56 +0000

[...] Cross-Cultural Research Balance between cultures: equilibrium training [...]

By: gregdowney

gregdowney — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 04:50:30 +0000

Thanks, Ryan. Music and motor skills — two of my favourite neuroanthropological areas. Please keep us posted on how it goes. We’d love to share what you find as you get further into the work. These are both areas where some really interesting work has already been done, but that’s a lot more room for exploration. Paul Mason, who posts on Neuroanthropology, for example, is really doing some interesting stuff in this area. Greg