One way to do so might be to learn to dance one very interesting study was conducted by Ken key mover want no recall or to me and was published in 2012 in psychology of sport and exercise and in this study sixty five to seventy eight-year-old participants were randomly assigned to two groups one group was the so-called freestyle dancing group am in this group they had to relearn single dance moves and in the second group the so-called combination group the seniors heads to learn the same movements but those movements were combined in ashore choreography this of course is much more demanding for your cognitive flexibility you not only have to you think of how to do this one single movement but you have to keep in mind which movement has to be done in which moment so this is much more stress for your working memory for you executed functions and directly after
the forty minutes dance session um all participants had to solve a task switching task which is classical tasks to measure executed functions and it in months cognitive flexibility because you have to switch very fast between two different tasks and the group which performed the more difficult dancing lesson the group which had to learn the combination of good single movements um this group outperformed clearly outperformed the group in which the cognitive demands Variant that's high so this is a interesting on the acute effects of a dancing intervention for seniors but the question is what about the longtime effects other any effects on cognition for seniors who train band scene for a much longer time and as
I said there is a lack of really well-done studies but one study that can give us a hint is the study from young Christopher cap installed and colleagues um in which healthy elderly participants aged 62 ninety-four years learns dancing for six-month one hour per week in comparison to the passive control group this of course cane criticized because some methodological Goji Actives artifacts can OK you're like rosin tile effect or placebo effect or maybe one group outperforms the other group because they were getting more attention and so they are more motivated in the post-test so let's regards the re-size as a prelim in every result and as a hint for future studies butts in many tests the dancing seniors were really much better.
the forty minutes dance session um all participants had to solve a task switching task which is classical tasks to measure executed functions and it in months cognitive flexibility because you have to switch very fast between two different tasks and the group which performed the more difficult dancing lesson the group which had to learn the combination of good single movements um this group outperformed clearly outperformed the group in which the cognitive demands Variant that's high so this is a interesting on the acute effects of a dancing intervention for seniors but the question is what about the longtime effects other any effects on cognition for seniors who train band scene for a much longer time and as
I said there is a lack of really well-done studies but one study that can give us a hint is the study from young Christopher cap installed and colleagues um in which healthy elderly participants aged 62 ninety-four years learns dancing for six-month one hour per week in comparison to the passive control group this of course cane criticized because some methodological Goji Actives artifacts can OK you're like rosin tile effect or placebo effect or maybe one group outperforms the other group because they were getting more attention and so they are more motivated in the post-test so let's regards the re-size as a prelim in every result and as a hint for future studies butts in many tests the dancing seniors were really much better.