Sofia Amaral Martins is an international dancer, dance educator, and trainee somatic psychotherapist with a background in neuroscience and psychology. Her research on dance perception has been published in Dance Data, Cognition, and Multimodal Communication (Routledge, 2023). Nominated for One Dance UK’s Applied Dance Science Award and the IADMS Dance Educator Award, she is recognised as a Healthier Dancer Practitioner. Through Neuroscience of Dance, she integrates neuroscience, somatic psychotherapy, psychology, and movement to support dancers, educators, and mental-health professionals worldwide.

• Chapter 1: Dance & Neuroscience.- Part I: Chapter 2: Brain Anatomy and Movement Structures.- Part II: The Cognitive Architecture of Dance.- Chapter 3: Visual Perception.- Chapter 4: Mental Representation.- Chapter 5: Memory.- Chapter 6: Motor control and execution.- Part III: Chapter7: Improvising, creating & exploring movement.- Chapter 8: The Medicine in Movement - Dance for Health and Well-Being.

Sofia Amaral Martins is an international dancer, dance educator, and trainee somatic psychotherapist with a background in neuroscience and psychology. Her research on dance perception has been published in Dance Data, Cognition, and Multimodal Communication (Routledge, 2023). Nominated for One Dance UK’s Applied Dance Science Award and the IADMS Dance Educator Award, she is recognised as a Healthier Dancer Practitioner. Through Neuroscience of Dance, she integrates neuroscience, somatic psychotherapy, psychology, and movement to support dancers, educators, and mental-health professionals worldwide.

• Chapter 1: Dance & Neuroscience.- Part I: Chapter 2: Brain Anatomy and Movement Structures.- Part II: The Cognitive Architecture of Dance.- Chapter 3: Visual Perception.- Chapter 4: Mental Representation.- Chapter 5: Memory.- Chapter 6: Motor control and execution.- Part III: Chapter7: Improvising, creating & exploring movement.- Chapter 8: The Medicine in Movement - Dance for Health and Well-Being.

Sofia Amaral Martins is an international dancer, dance educator, and trainee somatic psychotherapist with a background in neuroscience and psychology. Her research on dance perception has been published in Dance Data, Cognition, and Multimodal Communication (Routledge, 2023). Nominated for One Dance UK’s Applied Dance Science Award and the IADMS Dance Educator Award, she is recognised as a Healthier Dancer Practitioner. Through Neuroscience of Dance, she integrates neuroscience, somatic psychotherapy, psychology, and movement to support dancers, educators, and mental-health professionals worldwide.

• Chapter 1: Dance & Neuroscience.- Part I: Chapter 2: Brain Anatomy and Movement Structures.- Part II: The Cognitive Architecture of Dance.- Chapter 3: Visual Perception.- Chapter 4: Mental Representation.- Chapter 5: Memory.- Chapter 6: Motor control and execution.- Part III: Chapter7: Improvising, creating & exploring movement.- Chapter 8: The Medicine in Movement - Dance for Health and Well-Being.