Table 1.

Definitions of the dependent variables explored in this study. They are each relevant at the level of the individual (i.e., a participant’s embodied experience, a participant’s self-reported embodiment, a participant’s performance ability, a participant’s engagement with arts and sports).

Participants’	Variable type	Conceptualisation
Self-reported enjoyment	Continuous	Aesthetic judgement The extent to which participants enjoyed observing movement.
Self-reported visual experience	Continuous	Aesthetic judgement reflecting visual fluency with movements. The extent to which participants perceive movements as being familiar.
Self-reported embodiment	Continuous	Aesthetic judgement reflecting embodiment of movements. The extent to which participants perceive the movements as being reproducible with their own body.
Embodied experience	Categorical	Experimental manipulation differentiating between movement sequences that participants did and did not physically perform. Performed movements are part of participants’ embodied experience, while movements that they did not perform are not.
Performance ability	Continuous	Score of how well movements have been learned. The extent to which the embodied experience gained through physically performing dance movements, during the training component of the study, is evident to an outside observer.
Engagement with arts and sports	Categorical/Continuous	Self-report measure of experience with performing arts. A) Do participants have experience with different arts and sports? B) The extent to which participants enjoy various arts and sports.