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·November 20, 2025·7 min read

The Brain Has a Dance Mode, And AI Just Mapped It

A team of researchers used a massive dance video dataset and advanced AI models to map how the human brain interprets dance, revealing striking differences between experts and nonexperts. By pairing fMRI recordings with AI-derived cross-modal features, they found that higher-order brain regions outperform simple motion or sound cues when processing choreography.

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·February 12, 2024·6 min read

Dance Your Way to Better Mental Health

Structured dance programs are as beneficial, and sometimes superior, to traditional physical activities for enhancing psychological and cognitive health. This systematic review and meta-analysis, involving a broad age range of participants from 7 to 85 years old, compared the effects of various dance genres against other exercises like walking and weight training.

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·July 1, 2023·4 min read

Dance Away Distress: Rekindling Health and Happiness

With social distancing rules relaxing, dancing is once again a popular activity among adults of all ages. Dancing provides both physical and psychological benefits.

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·November 12, 2022·6 min read

Rats Bop to the Beat

New findings reveal rats can move their heads to the beat of music, demonstrating animals have innate beat synchronization.

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·November 7, 2022·4 min read

Want to Fire up the Dance Floor? Play Low-Frequency Bass

People dance 11.8% more when very low-frequency bass is present in music, a new study reports.

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·September 9, 2022·3 min read

Ballroom Dance Training Promotes Empathy

Researchers found both behavioral and neural mechanism evidence that empathy is promoted with long-term ballroom dancing training.

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·July 7, 2021·5 min read

Dancing With Music Can Halt Most Debilitating Symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease

Weekly musical dance classes can help to improve daily living and motor functions in those with mild-to-moderate Parkinson's disease.

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·December 12, 2019·3 min read

How humans learned to dance; from the Chimpanzee Conga

Studying the evolution of human dance, psychologists discovered chimpanzees also perform duo dance-like behaviors similar to a conga line.

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·August 4, 2019·3 min read

Jogging and five other exercises ward off weight gain despite ‘obesity genes’

For those with a genetic predisposition to obesity, partaking in six specific types of exercise can help combat weight gain. Jogging, yoga, power walking, certain types of dancing and mountain climbing can help reduce BMI in those with a predisposition to obesity. Surprisingly, cycling, swimming, and games like Dance Dance Revolution did not counteract the genetic effects on obesity.

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·April 5, 2018·2 min read

Dancing Aids Healthier Aging

A new study reveals ballet participation could have positive outcomes across numerous health and well-being categories for older people.

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·August 25, 2017·5 min read

Dancing Can Reverse the Signs of Aging in the Brain

Numerous recent studies have shown a link between exercise and improved cognitive performance in older people. A new study reveals dancing may have the most profound effect on cognitive health.