ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2017
The Dancing Brain: Structural and Functional Signatures of Expert Dance Training.
Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
39 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effects of different long-term exercise interventions on working memory in children and adolescents: a network meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Brain Activity of Professional Dancers During Audiovisual Stimuli Exposure: A Systematic Review.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023Pooled it
- Sensing Technology for Assessing Motor Behavior in Ballet: A Systematic Review.Sports medicine - open · 2022Pooled it
- Music and Exercise in Concert: Uncovering Synergistic Mechanisms for Enhancing Brain Health and Cognitive Resilience-A Narrative Review.Brain and behavior · 2026Review
- SoUth Korean study to PrEvent cognitive impaiRment and protect BRAIN health via Behavioral, Optimized, Organized Movement therapy (SUPERBRAIN-BOOM) in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Protocol for a Multicenter, Randomized Controlled Feasibility Trial.Journal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea) · 2026Article
- Review
- Effect of Dance Intervention on Cognitive Function and Related Cerebellar Dynamic Functional Connectivity in Patients With Schizophrenia.Alpha psychiatry · 2026Article
- Cortical response to balance perturbation is more sensitive in modern dancers than nondancers during biomechanically similar balance recovery.Journal of neurophysiology · 2026Article
- Strength training and detraining in female dancesport athletes: adaptations and retention of lower limb muscle architecture, strength, and dance performance.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Theta oscillations are associated with movement during choreographed and improvised dance - a case series with Memphis Jookin': The Show.Research square · 2026Article
- Article
- Dance to be creative: the creative beliefs, creativity ability and improvisation performance in experts, amateurs, and non-dancers.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Dancing through time: Cognitive changes over six years of community dance in Parkinson's disease.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2026Observational
- Exploring the Impact of Dance Training on the Structural Plasticity of Empathy-Related Brain Networks.Neural plasticity · 2026Article
- Cross-modal deep generative models reveal the cortical representation of dancing.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Cortical response to balance perturbation is more sensitive in modern dancers than nondancers during biomechanically similar balance recovery.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Toward a neuroaesthetics of interactions: Insights from dance on the aesthetics of individual and interacting bodies.iScience · 2025Review
- The cognitive neuroscience and neurocognitive rehabilitation of dance.BMC neuroscience · 2024Review
- The social and neural bases of creative movement: workshop overview.BMC neuroscience · 2024Article
- Differential Resting-State Brain Characteristics of Skeleton Athletes and Non-Athletes: A Preliminary Resting-State fMRI Study.Brain sciences · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Dance - as a ritual, therapy, and leisure activity - has been known for thousands of years. Today, dance is increasingly used as therapy for cognitive and neurological disorders such as dementia and Parkinson's disease. Surprisingly, the effects of dance training on the healthy young brain are not well understood despite the necessity of such information for planning successful clinical interventions. Therefore, this study examined actively performing, expert-level trained college students as a model of long-term exposure to dance training. To study the long-term effects of dance training on the human brain, we compared 20 young expert female Dancers with normal body mass index with 20 age- and education-matched Non-Dancers with respect to brain structure and function. We used diffusion tensor, morphometric, resting state and task-related functional MRI, a broad cognitive assessment, and objective measures of selected dance skill (Dance Central video game and a balance task). Dancers showed superior performance in the Dance Central video game and balance task, but showed no differences in cognitive abilities. We found little evidence for training-related differences in brain volume in Dancers. Dancers had lower anisotropy in the corticospinal tract. They also activated the
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.