Research
LMA and recent advances in neuroscience are a natural pairing.
The early work of physiotherapists using the LMA material is now gradually being understood by advances in neuroscience.
In the field of animation and computer games, programmers are computerising LMA observers’ work to cluster “movement signatures” (i.e. the characteristic movement style) of various international figures in order to understand their leadership styles as well as improve the quality of movement in animated figures. See http://movement.nyu.edu/GreenDot for more information.
The following papers are examples of LMA being applied to different fileds:
- Movement Characteristics of Hospitalised Psychiatric Patients. Dr. Martha Davis. [download pdf]
- "This is what I can’t do now… put my foot in my mouth!" - Integrating the effects of a traumatic upbringing during transition from boyhood to manhood. Susan Scarth. [download pdf]
- A Study of Two Thereminists: Towards Movement Informed Instrument Design. Kedzie Penfield. [download pdf]
- Watching the Watchers. Kedzie Penfield. [download pdf]
- The Effects of a Movement with Music Program on Measures of Balance and Gait Speed in Healthy Older Adults. Janet Hamburg. [download pdf]
- Changes in the kinematic structure and non-kinematic features of movements during skilled reaching after stroke: A Laban Movement Analysis in two case studies. Afra Foroud, Ian Q. Whishaw. [download pdf]