Today marks the beginning of National Dance Week here in Canada, so I thought it would be fun to write about the neuroscience of dance! Dancing beautifully integrates complex movement and motor learning, rhythmic musical synchronization, creative emotional expression, and interpersonal communication. Because of this complexity, studying the neural basis of dance is a challenge –… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Dance
Dancing Makes You Smarter? How Dancing may Prevent Dementia
Making the rounds throughout social media is a popular statistic claiming that dancing makes you smarter. Specifically, it cites a study that found that elderly people who dance frequently had a substantially lower risk of developing dementia. At first glance, I happened to agree – duh! of course dancing makes you smarter! I may be… Continue Reading
Red Bull “Artist to Athlete” – My Thoughts
Red Bull just released a video on their YouTube channel titled “Artist to Athlete”, depicting the Red Bull BC One All-Stars being “trained like athletes”. The all-stars are some of the best bboys in the entire world – if you don’t already consider them athletes, then I’m not sure I agree with your definition. Anyway,… Continue Reading