Theatre, Performance and Cognition introduces readers to the key debates, areas
of research, and applications of the cognitive sciences to the humanities, and
to theatre and performance in particular. It features the most exciting work
being done at the intersection of theatre and cognitive science, containing both
selected scientific studies that have been influential in the field, each
introduced and contextualised by the editors, together with related scholarship
from the field of theatre and performance that demonstrates some of the
applications of the cognitive sciences to actor training, the rehearsal room and
the realm of performance more generally.
The three sections consider the principal areas of research and