#SCIENCE & ART/

Project: BlackBox - Arts & Cognition
FCSH - NOVA University Lisbon
Role: Invited Neuroscientist
Principal Investigator: Carla Fernandes
Year: 2018-2019

“Human creativity finds in artistic practices one of its most admirable forms [...]

This study has focused on developing a quantitative methodology to characterize an artist’s behavioral patterns while creating an artwork. Inspired by a theoretical framework from animal cognition, we analyzed the decision‐making process of an artist while choosing to invest more or less effort in given elements of the art piece.”

- Rita Fonseca, Rodrigo Abril de Abreu and Carla Fernandes, from Decision-Making in a Choreographic Creative Process: A Quantitative Approach

- Blackbox rehearsals / Video and photos: Rodrigo Abril / Choreographer: Sylvia Rijmer

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Research articles:

Fonseca, AR., Abril de Abreu, R., Fernandes, C. Decision-Making In a Choreographic Creative Process: A Quantitative Approach. The Journal of Creative Behavior (2021). Link here.

Fonseca, AR., Abril de Abreu, R., Fernandes, C. (2022). I see something and I like it”: Unveiling a choreographer's decision-making process using quantitative and qualitative methods. Dance data, cognition, and multimodal communication (pp. 202-219). Routledge. Link here.

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