Francisco Javier Romero-Naranjo

Francisco Javier Romero-Naranjo
University of Alicante | UA · Departamento de Innovación y Formación Didáctica

Neuromotricity. Music motor control and the Brain. Master in Clinical Neuropsychology. PhD. from A. von Humboldt-Berlin

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This article demonstrates a visual study on the educational space in which the teaching of body percussion is carried out in universities. The methodological framework is chosen by the Visual Arts Based Educational Research, using the work of an artist as a conceptual and methodological model. The research remains notable (1) due to the theoretical...
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of Body Percussion from all areas, focusing on existing academic literature and the contribution of different authors. Existing ethnographic publications are reviewed, as are the links with traditional dances, musical pedagogy, neuroscientific aspects, handclapping songs, use in shows,...
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The review of the existing narrative shows the theoretical evolution of the concepts of motricity and psychomotricity, which have led to a new paradigm of movement called neuromotricity. In this new approach to motor action, cognitive functions, and especially executive functions, form part of its essence. This is why neuromotricity, as a disciplin...
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In this publication, we introduce a new model of sports learning called Bapne Fit which proposes a protocol of physical and cognitive activities. Its exercise protocol is linked to endurance training, as well as perceptual and coordination skills for the development of the body schema with a clear link to the stimulation of executive functions. Neu...
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The purpose of this work is to present the state of the art of body percussion through a bibliometric study that collects the most significant literature at the international level from 2005 to 2021, and that can serve as a basis for future research on this topic. A total of n=64 documents were selected, extracted solely and exclusively from primar...
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Hand clapping games are part of many cultures and have been passed down orally from generation to generation. They serve as a great socializing element, allowing the development of essential skills through play. This makes them an interesting resource for the holistic development of children. Through this publication, we aim to highlight the import...
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The words danza and baile in Spain, as well as danza and ballo in Italy, are used as synonyms. However, as demonstrated by the contributions of various researchers, in specific cultural contexts these terms take on different meanings, creating a certain polysemy that must be taken into consideration in the study of certain dance expressions. Starti...
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Body percussion is a tool developed by the body to make music, highlighted by the integration of body expressiveness, rhythmic and musical sense with a wide range of applications, meanings and functions of music (Romero- Naranjo, 2013). This tool facilitates the understanding of abstract musical concepts through experiential learning, where student...
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There are many styles of Caribbean music, one of the most popular and controversial is reggae. In this research, a review of the origins and most common forms of this musical style is proposed. There are many reggae music artists who think of this style, but without a doubt Bob Marley has become the icon that represents the struggle for the rights...
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This chapter presents the research design of the doctoral thesis at the Universidad de Valladolid on body percussion in popular and traditional music in Spain developed within the research group on Neuromotricity and Motor Literacy established within the Universitad de Alicante. The investigation protocol is structured in four mains blocks: 1. Body...
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Funk music is a musical genre that originated from the Afro-American popular music tradition and has had a great influence on dance music from its origins to the present day. Many of the songs of this genre have become great hits in the history of popular music of the 20th century, such as “I feel Good”, “Chameleon”... In the following text, we pre...
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Neuromyths, defined as misconceptions about the functioning of the brain, exert a significant influence on educational practice, including physical education, music education, and any discipline related to movement. It is useful to examine the relationship between neuromyths and movement, and to consider the implications for teaching and learning....
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There are several traditional dances from northern Spain that use body percussion such as the Esku-dantza, a choreographic expression from the Basque Country particularly widespread in the northern area of Navarra. This dance is characterized by the kinesthetic sequence and the rhythm that the dancers create through a game of motor coordination acc...
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Neuromotricity and sport psychology focus on different facets of human performance: the former studies neurophysiological and biomechanical aspects of movement, while the latter addresses psychological factors. Although distinct, these disciplines complement each other; understanding the neurological mechanisms of motor control can facilitate psych...
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En el presente estudio analizamos cómo la neuromotricidad y la percusión corporal pueden posiblemente estimular las funciones cognitivas y ejecutivas. En este caso, se trata del grupo de personas mayores de Alicante que practican el método BAPNE semanalmente; contaremos la historia de su origen, en el año 2013, hasta la actualidad, y los beneficios...
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Learning, a fundamental process in the acquisition of knowledge and the development of skills, is supported by an intricate network of cognitive mechanisms that operate in a coordinated manner. This paper focuses on five crucial devices for information acquisition, processing and storage: motivation, attention, memory, sensory perception and habitu...
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Memory, that amazing faculty that allows us to encode, store and retrieve information, has been the subject of study and research since time immemorial (Squire, 2004, 2009). Throughout history, various authors have proposed theoretical models that seek to explain the mechanisms and processes involved in memory, from a neuroscientific and cognitive...
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Hospital pedagogy is an underdeveloped specialty that becomes essential for an educational system that every year contemplates how many students must interrupt their training processes due to health problems of varying severity. This means that hospitalized children must stay in the pedagogical units located in the hospitals. There, teachers become...
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Body percussion, an intrinsically human form of artistic expression that resonates with the deepest rhythms of our being, is at the dawn of a new era. Artificial intelligence (AI), with its ability to process information and learn at breakneck speed, presents itself as a catalyst for the evolution of this discipline, opening up a universe of creati...
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The use of body percussion in dances can be observed in different cultures, which is why there are several papers that deal with it (Andreu-Cabrera & Romero-Naranjo, 2022, 2023, 2024; Alonso-Marco & Romero-Naranjo, 2022; Di Russo & Romero- Naranjo, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024; Romero-Naranjo, 2008, 2013, 2024). The Verbunk, also known as Verbunkos, is a...
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Education, in its essence, seeks to enhance the integral development of the individual, promoting not only cognitive learning, but also physical, emotional and social growth. In this context, neuromotricity, the capacity of the nervous system to plan, control and execute movements, emerges as a fundamental pillar. Movement is not only essential for...
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The reasons for the increasing use of the body in contemporary music may lie as much in the aesthetic-compositional possibility of evoking the primordial and, by far, most concrete and transcendental form of human musicality (Schaeffner 1996, Sachs 2015), as in representing a veritable paradigm of reference to accompany an epochal transition at any...
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The BAPNE method is not a musical method, although it does make extensive use of voice, singing, rhythm, movement and body percussion together. This combination of elements through musical-motor activities articulated on the five paradigms of the double task and under a neuromotricity thinking are the basis of its raison d'être: the cognitive, psyc...
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Motivation is the driving force behind our actions, thoughts and behaviours. It is the engine that drives learning, and in the educational context, motivation encourages learners to face circumstances and challenges, and set out on the path to success. Conversely, lack of motivation can be a major barrier to learning (Gopalan et al., 2017). Motivat...
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Since the early years of the 20th century, at the same time as Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological theories of perception took hold, the use of the body and movement have assumed increasing importance in pedagogical studies. Body percussion, in particular, constitutes a didactic resource employed, to a greater or lesser extent, in the methodological p...
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The rudiments of percussion, often considered the ‘alphabets’ of drums and other percussion instruments, comprise a series of fundamental rhythmic patterns that serve as the basis for technical development and musical expression. Although traditionally associated with drums, their relevance extends to a wide range of percussion instruments, from vi...
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Los juegos de palmas son juegos populares colaborativos, donde se integransecuencias motrices que deben seguir sus practicantes, de manera coordinada, apartir de una canción. Aunque pudiera parecer una actividad sencilla o poco seria,solamente hay que ver a los infantes cómo focalizan toda su atención para no fallar enlas complejas combinaciones de...
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La música tradicional valenciana, además de su valor artístico, se consolida como un pilar fundamental de la identidad cultural valenciana (Alberola, 2017), actuando como catalizador de la cohesión social, fortaleciendo el sentido de comunidad y transmitiendo la memoria colectiva a través de historias, tradiciones y saberes (Bravo, 2010). Además, s...
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La neuromotricidad, como disciplina que ejerce una influencia directa en la estimulación cognitiva (Andreu-Cabrera y Romero-Naranjo, 2021), se encuentra estrechamente relacionada con la cognición corporeizada (Vicente-Nicolás y Alonso-Sanz, 2013). Según Romero-Naranjo (2024), se caracteriza por ser una innovadora combinación de actividades que inco...
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In recent years, following the pandemic, there has been a notable increase in teleworking at both academic and work levels, leading to more computer-based activity and resulting in less physical activity. Consequently, there has been a growing interest in incorporating active breaks as a way to counteract the lack of movement. Active breaks represe...
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Neuromotricity is a discipline that has practical resources that are completely different from motor and psychomotricity. In the first instance, the first aspect that differentiates it is the use of the voice with very precise characteristics that serve as the basis for managing and executing activities in a sequenced manner. Human movement is a co...
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La imitación en la didáctica de la música es un recurso que proviene de las tradiciones orales, y que posteriormente la cultura occidental transformó con muchísimas variantes a través del canon o el contrapunto entre otras formas musicales. El método BAPNE posee cuatro formas de aprendizaje, donde la imitación se ejecuta desde otra praxis muy diver...
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Neuromyths are misconceptions arising from misinterpreted or biased data, often lacking scientific evidence and presenting unverified claims. Examples include the Mozart effect, Brain Gym, the idea that some people predominantly use one hemisphere of the brain, the belief that women are inherently better at multitasking, the notion that reggaeton b...
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Body percussion constitutes a decisive expressive-musical element in many works of the band repertoire. The compositional possibilities that it offers from a rhythmic, timbral and choreographic point of view are often linked to traditional musical elements as in the case of Palindromia Flamenca by Antonio Ruda Peco. In this work for solo soprano sa...
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Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent mental health issues globally, disproportionately affecting women, who experience them at rates 50% higher than men. Aerobic exercise has been shown to alleviate anxiety symptoms. During the 2021-2022 academic year in Spain, 97.4% of Early Childhood Education teachers were women. Owing to the limited researc...
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In recent years, the volume of research on laterality has considerably increased. However, there is a gap in understanding its relationship with education because no comprehensive studies have synthesized all existing information on this topic. Therefore, this study aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis of scientific and academic publications fro...
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The purpose of this chapter is to provide practical resources about the “Chocolate” handclapping game from the choral point of view, but focused only on the rhythmic area. First of all, a state of the question based on the PRISMA method is made in order to know the main authors, researches and institutions that have dealt with hand games from the a...
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“FrèreJacques" is one of the best-known popular songs in the world due to its attractive melody for children. Its didactic application in various educational contexts allows many pedagogical applications from different approaches. From the BAPNE method we propose a learning sequence that allows us to learn in the first phase of choral singing with...
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Currently, there is a lack of intervention studies in higher education that compare neuromotricity with traditional methodologies, with the majority focused on primary and secondary education. In this study, focusing on gender differences, we aimed to evaluate the influence of the traditional approach vs. the neuromotricity BAPNE method on selectiv...
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This study aims to validate the Spanish version of the Measure of Happiness (MH), a questionnaire that identifies the specific areas of an individual’s life that are related to experienced happiness. The sample consisted of 458 Spanish native speakers (65.7% women, 34.3% men; mean age = 24.14, SD = 8.45) and was divided into two groups: Sample 1 (N...
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In recent years, there has been a significant increase in publications exploring the health benefits of cognitive stimulation and movement across various age groups. This study provides a comprehensive overview of current cognitive stimulation and movement research by conducting a bibliometric analysis of significant international papers published...
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When analyzing the band music repertoire, which includes works composed for wind ensemble as well as arrangements from orchestral compositions, an increase in the incorporation of body percussion as a compositional resource has been observed. This article focuses on the work La corrida de toros by Mario Bürki. The Swiss composer, in his descriptive...
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When analyzing the band music repertoire, which includes works composed for wind ensemble as well as arrangements from orchestral compositions, an increase in the incorporation of body percussion as a compositional resource has been observed. This article focuses on the work La corrida de toros by Mario Bürki. The Swiss composer, in his descriptive...
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The aim of this research is to review the basis of neurodevelopment in early childhood education and provide interdiscipli-nary development tables that encompass cognitive, kinesthetic, and musical aspects. After reviewing numerous authors, and in order to provide early childhood education teachers with a reliable overview of the subject, we presen...
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In this publication we present a theoretical review in which neuromotricity has clear links with motor skills through the activities of the Bapne method. Neuromotricity provides numerous resources related to body schema, physical condition, kinematic analysis where executive functions and especially the dual task are always present. The aim of this...
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This research aims to study the effect of Bodypercussion exercises on balance and executive functions of children with DCD. Thirty children with DCD between seven and nine years of age were selected from girls' elementary schools. The subjects were randomly divided into two groups: experimental and control (15 subjects in each group). For eight wee...
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Body percussion is an emerging subject that has experienced an exponential growth in the last decade. The aim of this study is to present the state of the art of body percussion from 2001 to 2022 based on documents indexed in primary and secondary search engines with emphasis on gender and impact of publications. A sample of N=245 documents was sel...
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The blues is a musical genre originating in African-American communities that over time became one of the most important influences of popular music in the United States. Its didactic application in various educational contexts allows for many pedagogical uses, which is why the BAPNE method structures and teaches it in a novel way through Neuromotr...
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Our brain has been extremely important since the beginning of medicine. The injuries that the human being has received in the frontal lobe have served for many scholars to focus on that part of the brain and to find out what were all its functions. There are many authors who have been interested in this area, highlighting Feuchtwanger who in 1923 w...
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Entering into the compositional world of an author implies knowing in depth the individual's own environment. In this case we are concerned with the musical production of Mario Bürki, born in 1977, and more specifically that dedicated to wind groups. The ideal thing when we embark on the research of an artist is to know his aesthetic influences, hi...
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Musical pedagogy provides new resources that help to a better understanding of musical elements as well as instrumental technique. The case of the paper orchestra is one of the most effective examples in the first stage of learning the instrument thanks to its creator Josbel María Puche Gómez. The paper orchestra is one of the programs of the Siste...
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In the field of popular music (Frith, 2004), musical bands play a relevant place both in terms of the dissemination of culture, as well as social interaction and inclusion (Gisbert & Chao, 2019). They have a very extensive literature that includes original music, transcriptions of symphonic and orchestral opera and arrangements of modern music. The...
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The academic body percussion proposed by the BAPNE method is a valuable interdisciplinary neuromotor resource based on the double task and the possible stimulation of cognitive functions and executive functions, which has a precise structure of the session in three parts (starting rite, cognitive stimulation, and closing rite) whose purpose, object...
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In recent years, new tendencies in the various arts have led to the integration of a greater number of elements, resulting in more enriching experiences. This is how in the field of music, and specifically choral singing, certain curiosity and a search for new sounds have been raised through the incorporation of movement, theater, dance and body pe...
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The way of starting a body percussion class as a rite of initiation is of vital importance in the BAPNE method, since it will depend on it, whether or not it creates a suitable and conducive environment for learning in the rest of the session (Asurmendi & Romero-Naranjo, 2022). In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), the number of activ...
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Knowing how to open, develop and close a session with BAPNE activities is of vital importance for the methodology (Romero-Naranjo, 2018). For this, it is necessary to know the tripartite structure of the sessions (Initiation rite, cognitive stimulation, closing rite), as well as the main characteristics, aims and objectives pursued in each of them....
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Happy Birthday is possibly one of the most famous songs in the world and for that reason it is a very valuable material to apply it didactically to all educational areas from the BAPNE method. Because the song still has an important social function it is usually excluded from the repertoire, but in this article, we will present, in order to improve...
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Las pedagogías activas y creativas poseen un relevante espacio y atención en la didáctica de la música de diferentes etapas educativas. A ellas, entendidas de una manera muy amplia y comprendiendo actividad como antónimo de pasividad, está dedicado este libro, que conjuga quince capítulos y una introducción. Los dieciocho autores, once mujeres y si...
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El propósito de este capítulo es proponer actividades basadas en la neuromotricidad, donde se unifique el lenguaje musical con el trabajo de expresión corporal, primero hacemos una clara diferenciación en los términos de motricidad, psicomotricidad y neuromotricidad para luego dar paso a la explicación de la actividad denominada “Bola Cantabile”. C...
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Neuromotricity is one of the most effective resources to possibly work cognitive and executive functions, highlighting its activities through the dual task in the BAPNE method. There is bibliography in Web of Science that provides positive data in several investigations with different types of population. Through the BAPNE method, the activities ar...
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The purpose of this research is to carry out a bibliometric analysis on traditional dances in Spain with the aim of parcelling all the data obtained in an academic way. A total of N=224 articles published between 2012 and 2022 and indexed in Web of Science were analysed. We used an ex post facto retrospective design and an analysis of frequencies c...
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The interest and impact of scientific productions on dual-task and movement in recent years have demonstrated the worldwide relevance of this topic, especially in neuroscience, neurorehabilitation, and cognitive stimulation. Therefore, this research aims to conduct a bibliometric study on the scientific production published on dual-task and movemen...
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In this article we justify the ten basic pillars of Neuromotricity with the aim of showing a clear difference with respect to the theoretical and practical concepts of Motor and Psychomotor skills. In the first instance, a state of the art on this subject is presented, breaking down the number of publications and representative authors in order to...
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En la presente revisión teórica, dejamos constancia de que la percusión corporal y la neuromotricidad son un excelente recurso para trabajar de manera interdisciplinar, tanto en las ciencias de la actividad física y el deporte, como en la música u otras áreas de conocimiento. El método BAPNE (Biomecánica, Anatomía, Psicología, Neurociencia y Etnomu...
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The aim of this article is to propose the dance "Ball dels moretons" as a pedagogical resource within the corporal expression in the sciences of physical activity and sport, as well as in the subject of music, due to its psychomotor and choreographic richness. This traditional dance from Mallorca, which uses body percussion as a form of cultural ex...
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Tras un análisis de los estudios publicados, encontramos una evolución teórica de los conceptos de motricidad y psicomotricidad, hacia un término nuevo como es la neuromotricidad. Este innovador enfoque de la acción motora recoge las funciones cerebrales implicadas en el movimiento, sobre todo las funciones cognitivas y las funciones ejecutivas. La...
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The purpose of this research was to test whether the neuromotricity activities of the BAPNE method based on the dual task could improve selective attention and concentration in 5th grade primary school pupils. A quantitative approach was used, with a quasi-experimental design between subjects and with repeated measures before and after the interven...
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Abstract. The purpose of this study is to perform a case study evaluating cardiorespiratory aspects and ergospirometry or stress test with gas analysis using body percussion according to the BAPNE method. A 43-year-old subject with a height of 182 centimeters and 81.7 kilograms was studied in a specialized medical center for athletes directed by th...
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Neuromotricity and body schema. Bases for the use of body percussion in the sciences of physical education and sport Neuromotricidad y esquema corporal. Bases para el uso de la percusión corporal en las ciencias de la educación física y el deporte Abstract. The aim of this article is to propose a theoretical and practical justification on the work...
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The aim of this publication is to make a systematized contribution by providing visuomotor resources through the BAPNE method. This methodology has several multidisciplinary protocols with activities ranging fr om six months of age onwards. BAPNE has four forms of learning and neuromotricity called imitation, inverse reaction, variable circular coo...