REFERENCES - Citations & Sources

Eve Gentry — Source Quote

Eve Gentry, "Pilates is a Concept" (1991 interview). Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHzoa2FDd7A

Principle 1 — Developmental Scaffolding (Mat / Joe's Quote)

Fitts, P. M., & Posner, M. I. (1967). Human Performance. Brooks/Cole. (Cognitive–associative–autonomous stages of motor skill acquisition; cited via Wong, A. L., et al., "Components of complex movement that can be best studied using the sequence learning paradigm," Journal of Neurophysiology.)

Thelen, E., & Smith, L. B. Dynamic systems theory of motor development — movement understood as emerging from the interaction of multiple body systems, developing from simple to complex postural and movement control. (Overview via ScienceDirect, "Motor Development.")

Principle 2 — Synchronization / Apparatus as Extension of the Body (Reformer / Romana's Quote)

Maravita, A., & Iriki, A. (2004). Tools for the body (schema). Trends in Cognitive Sciences. (Tool use induces lasting modification of the body schema's peripersonal space representation.)

Cardinali, L., Frassinetti, F., Brozzoli, C., Urquizar, C., Roy, A. C., & Farnè, A. (2009). Tool-use induces morphological updating of the body schema. Current Biology.

Canzoneri, E., Marzolla, M., Amoresano, A., Verni, G., & Serino, A. (2013). Tool-use reshapes the boundaries of body and peripersonal space representations. Experimental Brain Research.

Miller, L. E., et al. (2018), and related work summarized in: Bahmad, S., et al. "Does tool use extend peripersonal space? A review and re-analysis." Experimental Brain Research (2012).