Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

This study develops a cognitive model to explain the processof artistic creation in a dance domain. Many researchers in thefield of psychology and cognitive science have investigatedthe process of creativity and developed various theories thatexplain this process. Their efforts have mostly focused onhigher cognitive functions of artists and scientists. However,in recent years, several studies that have highlighted theimportance of the interaction between idea generation andidea externalization processes suggest that people can findand develop new aspects of images and ideas by perceivingand reflecting on the images and ideas they externalize. Thisstudy develops a cognitive model that explains this interactionprocess in dance creation by referring to a famous theory ofmotor learning, the closed-loop model. We also investigatedance creation of an expert breakdancer and check thevalidity of our proposed model.