Lisa-Maria van Klaveren

Academisch Medisch Centrum Universiteit van Amsterdam | AMC · Academic Medical Center

Social connectedness at school is crucial to children's development, yet very little is known about the way it has been affected by school closures during COVID-19 pandemic. We compared pre-post lockdown levels of social connectedness at a school playground in forty-three primary school-aged children, using wearable sensors, observations, peer nomi...

Background: Outdoor social participation in the school playground is crucial for children's socio-emotional and cognitive development. Yet, many children with disabilities in mainstream educational settings are not socially included within their peer group. We examined whether loose-parts-play (LPP), a common and cost-effective intervention that c...

Art encounters may lead to goosebumps in many, elicit tears in some, evoke fainting in few, and bring about anger in others. Art's ability to, figuratively and literally, move people has always been alluring to scholars across a great range of disciplines. During the last two decades, motor resonance has entered the floor of empirical aesthetics (c...

Can we measure the experiences of physical and VR art installations? How could that be done? The present research attempts to answer these questions through the use of a multimethod approach to assess every dimension of the experience of art. Wristband and questionnaires have been used as research tools to understand how the experience of art insta...

Motor resonance seems to play an important role in visual art encounters (cf. Freedberg & Gallese, 2007). On the one hand, viewers’ sensations and emotions seem to be closely related to the representational content, such as actions, intentions, and objects depicted in a given work of art. On the other hand, visible traces of the artist’s creative g...

Ruim een kwart van de kinderen en jongeren in Nederland heeft één of meer chronische aandoening(en). Dit leidt tot steeds complexere zorgvragen (FNO, 2019). Daarentegen specialiseert en fragmenteert ons zorgstelsel juist in toenemende mate. De hierdoor ontstane discontinuïteit en contraproductieve praktijkvoering beperken de door patiënten en hun f...

In this study, we analyzed bodily movements in terms of postural control of people looking at paintings of distinct artistic styles (Mondriaan’s neoplasticism and Pollock’s action painting; Experiment 1), as well as at a more diverse set of 20th-century abstract paintings (Experiment 2). Secondly, we explored the relation between postural control,...

Cultural education invites pupils to reflect on aspects of culture through a variety of means, ranging from music, dance, and drama to history, philosophy and citizenship amongst many others. According to van Heusden (2013, 2014, 2015), reflecting on cultural processes involves a limited set of basic metacognitive abilities: perception, imagination...

Art is known to give rise to a large range of emotions in people. These emotions are associated with bodily sensations felt in various regions of the body and subjective feelings. The current study applies bodily sensation maps (BSMs; Nummenmaa et al., 2014) as a tool to measure art-elicited emotions by charting bodily sensations onto a body map. T...

Since the introduction of the Appropriate Education Act, attempts have been made to include pupils with special needs in mainstream secondary education, including pupils with autism. Statistics show that this was only partially successful. This may be partly explained by the fact that the main focus of the involved professionals (school principals,...

Art is known for its ability to move people, figuratively but also literally. Researchers have tried to understand the groundings of aesthetic experience. The creation of art is also an embodied activity, which materializes in the artwork. In abstract modern paintings, for instance, the painter’s movements create a dynamical balance residing in the...

Art is well-known for its emotional effects on perceivers. These emotions consist of physical reactions to the artwork, felt in various regions of the body, as well as an articulation of subjective feelings towards it (cf. Cupchik, 2016). The current study is the first to apply Bodily Sensation Maps (BSMs, Nummenmaa et al., 2014) in encounters with...

Art is known to give rise to a large range of emotions in people. These emotions are associated with bodily sensations felt in various regions of the body and subjective feelings. The current study applies Bodily Sensation Maps (BSMs, Nummenmaa et al., 2014) as a tool to measure art-elicited emotions by charting bodily sensations onto a body map. T...

During art history, works of art have elicited tears in many, evoked fainting in some, and brought about anger in others. Art's ability to, figuratively and literally, move people has always attracted psychologists, philosophers and others to investigate the groundings of aesthetic experience.