Dr Corinne Jola
Research Fellow
Qualifications: PhD Cognitive Neuroscience, MA Choreography
Email: c.jola@surrey.ac.uk
Phone: Work: 01483 68 2900
Room no: 14 AC 04
Further information
Biography
Research| 2010-2012 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Surrey (fMRI, behavioural) |
| 2008-2010 | Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Glasgow on Watching Dance: Kinesthetic Empathy (AHRC funded) (TMS, fMRI, behavioural) |
| 2006-2007 | Postdoctoral Research Assistant City University London on Tactile Attention (EEG) |
| 2004-2006 | Individual Research Fellowship awarded from Swiss National Science Foundation for research at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN) at University College London (UCL). Guest supervisor: Prof. P. Haggard (fMRI, behavioural) |
| 2003-2004 | PhD research at University of Zurich Switzerland. Supervisor: Prof. F. W. Mast (fMRI, behavioural) |
| 2003-2004 | Dance Culture (postgraduate research diploma) University of Berne Switzerland (practice as research) |
| 2002-2003 | Science & Technology Research Assistant in Intellectual Property at HE at the Swiss Federal Government Berne |
| 2002 | Part-time Research Assistant, Visual Perception and Spatial Attention Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich (EEG) |
| 1994-2001 | University of Zurich and University of Freiburg i. Br., Psychology, Cognitive Science & Media Science (EEG, behavioural) |
Qualifications
| 2006 | PhD Cognitive Neuroscience: Body Representation and Motor Imagery: Effects of Adaptability; from the University of Zurich |
| 2008 | MA Choreography: The Glories of Endurance; from Laban Trinity College London |
| 2004 | postgraduate Diploma in Dance Culture: Effects of Media in Movement Notation, Representation and Transformation; from the University of Berne |
| 2002 | Dance Teaching Diploma from IWANSON School for Contemporary Dance Munich |
| 2001 | MA (Licentiate) in Psychology, Cognitive Science & Media Science, University of Zurich & Freiburg i. Br. |
Teaching
| 2012 | Dance workshop with Michael O'Connor at Impulse Dance Festival, Vienna-AT |
| since 2006 | Residential School, ePrime Tutor, Open University-UK |
| since 2005 | External and internal Examiner Psychology and Dane for Dance London Studio Centre; MA Diploma Medicine, University College London; University of Surrey |
| 2008 | Dance Workshop Somatic Practices from a Neuroscientific Perspective, Tanzfabrik Berlin-Germany |
| 2008 | Guest Lecturer Psychology, St Mary's University College London |
| 2007 | Theory and Practice for MA students in Dance Science, Laban Trinity College London |
Project Funding
| 2008 | Rebekka Skelton Foundation for a dance research project and performance named "Aahh.." in collaboration with Natasha Ruegg (dancer) and Eric Havadi (Architect) |
| 2004-2006 | Research Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) to study at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL London and in collaboration with Laban Trinity College London |
| 1997-1998 | German Association for Academic Exchange (DAAD) to study at the Centre for Cognitive Science then known as Institute of Informatics, Social Science and Cognition (supervision by Prof. G Strube, Prof M Knauff) |
Research Interests
My research interests are representation, generation, and perception of the human body and complex human movement patterns, in particular in relation to the performing arts.
My most recent research emphasised brain imaging (fMRI) and transcranial magnet stimulation (TMS) as well as eye tracking to study how aesthetic movements are perceived by a diverse group of audience members (see www.watchingdance.org). In previous research projects and positions I have also employed electroencephalography (EEG) to study visuospatial and tactile perception and attention.
Overall, I am very interested in different types of research methods and their outcomes, such as interdisciplinary research, effects of context in experimental studies, and choreographic practices. For instance, my current emphasis is on embodied neuroscience, related to a research project combining neuroscientific measures with subjective experience in strenuous cardiovascular dance training with the company Emio Greco I PC (http://www.ickamsterdam.com/). Part of the research was conducted at the SPINOZA centre in Amsterdam in collaboration with Prof C Keysers and Dr V Gazzola (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, N.I.N.).
I enjoy generating and playing with innovative ideas, communicating them to academic audiences from different disciplines and the general public, as well as writing grant applications, which is one part of my role at University of Surrey.
Publications
Peer reviewed Journals
Jola C, Abedian-Amiri A, Kuppuswamy A, Pollick F & Grosbas MH (2012). Motor simulation without motor
expertise: enhanced corticospinal excitability in visually experienced dance spectators. PLoS ONE. 7(3): e33343. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033343
Jola, C., Ehrenberg, S., Reynolds, D. (2012). The experience of watching dance: phenomenological-neuroscience duets. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 11(1), 17-37. DOI: 10.1007/s11097-010-9191-x.
Blaesing, B., Calvo-Merino, B., Cross, E., Jola, C., Honisch, J., Stevens, C. (2012). Neurocognitive control in dance perception and performance. Acta Psychologica, 139(2), 300-308. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2011.12.005
Jola, C., Davis, A., Haggard, P. (2011). Proprioceptive integration and body representation: insights into dancers’ expertise. Experimental Brain Research, 213(2-3), 257-265.
Jola, C., Grosbras, M.-H., Pollick, F. E. (2011). Arousal decrease in ‘Sleeping Beauty’: audiences’ neurophysiological correlates to watching a narrative dance performance of 2.5 hrs. Dance Research Electronic. 29.2, 378–403.
Nordin, S. M., Walker, I. J., Baker, J., Garner, J., Hardy, C., Irvine, S., Jola, C. Laws, H., & Blevins, P. (2011). Injury, imagery and self-esteem in dance. Healthy minds in injured bodies? Journal of Dance Medicine & Science, 15 (2), 76-85.
Jola, C., Pollick, F. E., & Reynolds, D. (2011) Editors of special issue ’Dance and neuroscience: New Partnerships’ in Dance Research Electronic. 29.2
de Vignemont, F., Majid, A., Jola, C., & Haggard, P. (2009). Segmenting the body into parts: evidence from biases in tactile perception. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 500-512.
Calvo-Merino, B., Jola, C., Glaser, D. E., & Haggard, P. (2008). Towards a sensorimotor aesthetics of performing art. Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 911-922.
Jola, C., & Mast, F. W. (2005). Mental object rotation and egocentric body transformation: two dissociable processes? Spatial Cognition and Computation, 5, 217-237.
Knauff, M., Strube, G., Jola, C., Rauh, R., & Schlieder, C. (2004). The psychological validity of qualitative spatial reasoning in one dimension. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 4, 167-188.
Book Chapters
Jola, C. (forthcoming). Do you feel the same way too? G. Brandstetter, G. Egert, S. Zubarik (Eds). Touching and to be touched. Kinesthesia and Empathy in Dance. DeGruyter: Berlin.
Pollick, F. E., Jola, C., Petrini, K., McKay, L. S., McAleer, Ph., Jang, S. H., MacLeod, Chr., & Simmons, D. Experience and the perception of biological motion. In K. L., Johnson, & M. Shiffrar (Eds). Perception of the human body in motion: findings, theory, and practice. Oxford University Press. In print.
Jola, C. (2010) Research and choreography – merging dance and cognitive neuroscience. In B. Bläsing, M. Puttke, & Th. Schack (Eds.), The neurocognition of dance. Mind, movement and motor skills (pp. 203-234). Psychology Press: Hove, UK.
Jola, C. (2007). Movement intention: dialectic of internal and external movements – Reflections from cognitive neuroscience. In S. de Lahunta (Ed.), Capturing intention (pp. 62-67). Amsterdam: School of Arts.
Jola, C., & Mast, F. W. (2005). Dance images. Mental imagery processes in dance. In J. Birringer & J. Fenger (Vol. Eds.), Dance and cognition (Vol. 15, pp. 211-232). Münster, NRW, G: LIT.
Conference Proceedings and Presentations (Selection)
Jola, C., Clements L., & Christensen, J. F. (2012). Moved by stills: kinesthetic sensory experiences in viewing dance photographs. 13th International multisensory research forum, University of Oxford, 19th-22nd June, Oxford, UK.
Jola, C. (2012). Shake your body and you will re-model your brain: Neuronal and structural changes in response to intense dance training. Fasci/a/nation Dance – Mobile Connections. tamed @ Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz/HZT, Uferstudios, 1st – 3rd June, Berlin.
Jola, C. (2012). The power of the presence - do you feel the same way too? Invited keynote speaker at the 4th International conference of dialogues between theatre and neuroscience. Department of History of Art and Performance. Sapienza Università di Roma. 11th – 13th April, Rome.
Pollick, F., Noble, K., Darshane, N., Murphy, H, Glowinski, D., McAleer, Ph., Jola, C., Penfield, K., & Camurri, A. (2012). Using a novel motion index to study the neural basis of event segmentation. i-Perception, 3(4), p. 225.
Jola, C (2011). Do You Feel the Same Way Too? Invited presenter at the Interdisciplinary Symposium Touching and to be touched. Kinesthesia and Empathy in Dance. July, 7th–9th, Cluster of Excellence, Languages of Emotion. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V., Freie Universitaet Berlin, Charité Berlin and others, at Radialsystem V, Berlin
Jola, C (2011). Preparing the Body. Talk at the 1st International Congress of Dance in Health, From motivation to movement: towards an empirical understanding of the role of dance in health. June, 24th – 25th, University of Bedfordshire, Bedford.
Jola, C., Grosbras, M.-H., McAleer, Ph., & Pollick, F. E. (2010). Dance with or without music: individual interpretations and across-subject synchronization. Talk, International Multisensory Research Forum, June, 16th–19th, Liverpool.
Jola, C., Grosbras, M-H., McAleer, Ph. & Pollick, F. E. (2010). Dance with or without music. Poster, Human brain mapping, April, 6th–10th, Barcelona.
Jola, C. (2009). How an audience responds to watching dance. Talk, Intelligence and Action, November, 11th–14th, Bielefeld.
Jola, C., Kuppuswamy, A., & Grosbras, M.-H. (2009). Watching dance: kinesthetic empathy. Talk, Dance Psychology Conference, May, 29th, Birmingham.
Jola, C. (2009). Responding to presence? The spectator’s performance. Talk, Conference on Performing Presence, March, 26th–29th, Exeter.
Jola, C. (2008). Effects of motor expertise on mental rotation and sensory transformation: kinesthetic responses? Talk, 50th meeting of Experimental working Psychologists (TeaP), March, 3rd–5th [in German], University of Marburg.
Jola, C., & Haggard, P. (2007). In-between notation and dance. Cognitive processes in reading Labanotation. Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the International Council on Kinetography and Labanotation (ICKL), Laban Trinity College London, 2005, Vol. 2, 145-155.
Jola, C. (2006). Body and movement representation in science and dance. Cinedans, Dance and New Media: New Ways of Creating and Documenting Dance, July 2nd/3rd , Amsterdam.
Jola, C., Hepp-Reymond, M. C. & Mast, F. W. (2006) Imagining a new movement. Presentation, 16th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Dance, Medicine and Science (IADMS), October, 19th - 22nd, West Palm Beach, Florida, US., p. 118-122.
Knauff, M., Jola, C., & Strube, G. (2001) Spatial reasoning: no need for visual information. Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Spatial Information Theory, p. 337-457.
Brandeis, D., & Jola, C. (2001). Mapping the spatial cognition of objects on the right-left axis. Brain Topography, 13(4), pp 320.
Artistic works
Please check my external website for my dance/performance works: http://cjola7.wix.com/cocodanse - it is still under construction but should be there sometime soon!