Anne Bishop, Author at Body Brain Connect

Mindful Movement Learning: What High Jumping can teach us about mindful movement Part 2

by Anne Bishop | Oct 2, 2013 | Body Brain Connect Blog |

The Taylor and Ivry article makes three useful points about motor learning, teasing out the difference between motor strategy and motor adaptation, and exploring how they work together to contribute to motor learning. Here are my three takeaways: 1) Strategy is...

Mindful Movement Learning: How High Jumping can teach Mindful Movement Part 1

by Anne Bishop | Sep 30, 2013 | Body Brain Connect Blog |

While in Stanford University’s Collaborative Haptics And Robotics in Medicine (CHARM) Lab reading group this summer, I was introduced to the paper, “The role of strategies in motor learning,” by Jordan Taylor and Richard Ivry from University of California at...

Attention Networks in Mindful Movement Part 3 Execution

by Anne Bishop | Sep 24, 2013 | Body Brain Connect Blog |

Execution attention network in mindful movement: The “oh #*$%” moments Alerting Attention Network Part 1 Orienting Attention Network Part 2 The execution network is sometimes called the “0h #%^@” network because it detects errors and monitors conflict. If your...

Attention Networks in Mindful Movement Part 2 Orienting

by Anne Bishop | Sep 20, 2013 | Body Brain Connect Blog |

Orienting attention network in mindful movement: Can you sustain attention to your body? Attention is not just one network. There are actually three attention networks.1. Alerting 2. Orienting 3. Execution The orienting network allows you to select to...

Attention Networks in Mindful Movement Part 1

by Anne Bishop | Sep 18, 2013 | Body Brain Connect Blog | 2 comments

What makes movement mindful? In brief, it’s because you are paying attention to it! There are many types of mindful movement. Here’s a short list: • Yoga • Pilates• Feldenkrais ®• T’ai chi • Gyrotonic ® • Body Mind Centering ® • Z-Health ® What...