Perceptions are mental mechanisms of deep sensorial information processing.
When learning from dance sport, we deal with complex perceptions such as:
- perception of the real movement through: - the presence of the dancers’ movement, the way of moving, the direction of the movement;
- the locomotion synergy based on the rhythmic and modulation, the articulation of the cognitive processes
with the sensuous-motor ones, smart movement generators.
- space-time coordination;
- perception of the triple dimension;
- perception of the basic spatial elements
- dynamic indices - motion parallax
- static indices - accommodation, convergence, stereoscopic
- creating conflict between visual, auditory and proprioceptive information
- complex cognitive-intellectual mechanisms;
- the referential mechanisms, mental maps, spatial referential recalibration;
- neuromorphologic and neurophysiologic mechanisms of space perception.
- perceptions of time by:
- the perception of succession;
- rhythm perception;
- perception and estimating of the time (start and end times of action and estimating the time between the
two, based on the external and interceptive benchmarks);
- temporal orientation (position of a phase of action - choreography structures - in relation to the entire
cycle of specific actions - choreography).
Perceptions create the impression of the existence of motion for the dancer, the movements being part of the
actions and operations, of the actual work and his thoughts.
When they become prevalent by organization and structure, “they turn into skills or essential skill components”
(M.Zlate, 1999).
Perception plays a part in the work of the dancer itself, without which the motion picture and the „experience” of
pair movement.
In the perceptual-motor learning, which consists of getting used to watch, to listen and to move with the
perception of your own movement in relation to the movement of others, perception is of crucial importance.
M. Zlate establishes three fundamental roles of the perception which, adapted to the activity of dancing would
mean:
- role of information - easy adaptation to the job of dancer;
- the role of guidance, orientation, control of the learning phenomenon in dance;
- a closing and opening switch role for the mental and motor act trajectories, necessary to the execution of
the specific movement in dance sport.
In this regard, perceptions are permanent in dancing activities for as Golu says in 1971 “their presence is not only
important but absolutely indispensable for adjusting the final activity adaptation.”
Psychological research methods are currently guided by deciphering the brain mechanisms involved in achieving
perception.