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Giftedness: A Critical Analysis of Theories and Identification Methods in Light of Contemporary Neuroscience

open access: yesInternational Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, Volume 86, Issue 2, April 2026.
This article reviews the evolution of giftedness from psychometric to multidimensional models and proposes the Differential Model of Giftedness and Talent, grounded in neuroscientific evidence distinguishing general giftedness from specific talents. Giftedness is defined as high cognitive potential, whereas talent reflects its developmental realization
Karin Reuwsaat   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Establishing the Importance of Watching Ballet for Classical Ballet Students [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
An important connection exists between watching high-level professional ballet and the classical ballet student’s technical and artistic development as a dancer.
Tonarelli, Siobhan Searle
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Functional anatomy of entheses and enthesis organs: A celebration of Professor Mike Benjamin's contribution to enthesis biology

open access: yesJournal of Anatomy, Volume 248, Issue 4, Page 583-590, April 2026.
This review celebrates the work of Professor Mike Benjamin, whose anatomical research transformed our understanding of entheses. Entheses are biomechanically complex regions that accommodate the transition between soft connective tissues and bone by natural macroscopic and microscopic adaptations that reduce stress concentration.
Hannah Shaw
wiley   +1 more source

Overuse Injuries in Professional Ballet: Influence of Age and Years of Professional Practice

open access: yesOrthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, 2017
Background: In spite of the high rate of overuse injuries in ballet dancers, no studies have investigated the prevalence of overuse injuries in professional dancers by providing specific diagnoses and details on the differences in the injuries sustained ...
Francisco José Sobrino MD, PhD   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ukrainian Ballets as Ethnomarkers

open access: yesТанцювальні студії, 2019
The purpose of the article is to identify the main aspects of the ethnomarking role of Ukrainian ballets. Methodology. The study used the analysis of scientific literature, a comparison of the "Ukrainian national ballet performance" concept’s definitions,
Anastasiia Korol
doaj   +1 more source

The Relationship between Mental and Somatic Practices and Wisdom. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
In this study we sought to explore how experience with specific mental and somatic practices is associated with wisdom, using self-report measures of experience and wisdom.
Patrick B Williams   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The engaged action hypothesis: Explaining the merits of external focus cues

open access: yesMind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 223-242, April 2026.
The attentional focus effect—the theory that focusing on the body during skilled tasks leads to suboptimal results relative to focusing externally—is well established, but it is not known why it holds. The most widely cited explanation is the constrained action hypothesis: Focusing on the body interferes with beneficial automatic motor programs.
Barbara Montero, John Toner
wiley   +1 more source

Behavioral Phenotyping of Arts Engagement Using 20 Years of the American Time Use Survey

open access: yesAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1558, Issue 1, April 2026.
This study uses data from the American Time Use Survey to explore changes in daily arts engagement in the United States from 2003 to 2023. Over this period, there were small increases in participatory arts engagement and slight declines in receptive arts engagement on the average day.
Jessica K. Bone   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors that influence in the turnout in ballet dancers with knee pain

open access: yesFisioterapia e Pesquisa, 2014
The turnout, primary gesture in classical ballet, refers the 180º of the feet. The lateral rotation provides the greatest amount of degrees necessary to perform the position perfectly.
Paula Fiquetti Silveira   +1 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Snap Judgements: Turning Photography into Art in the Late Soviet Union

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 2, Page 217-236, April 2026.
Abstract The history of photography and photography theory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is often preoccupied with “Western” criticism and arguments regarding the photograph as art, document, or technology. Yet, this criticism has ignored the development of photographic theory in the Soviet Union, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s ...
Jessica Werneke
wiley   +1 more source

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