How dances help to get rid of dizziness and become smarter

But in fact, the dance - it's not just for charging your body. It is also a kind of exercise for the brain! We have already published articles that exercise, and running in particular, are pushing the cognitive abilities of a person. Now came the turn of dancing.

Dancing improve brain functioning at different levels. Two recent studies have shown how the different types of dances allow dancers to reach peak performance by mixing cerebral, and cognitive processes in the muscle memory and proprioception.

Proprioception, proprioception (from the Latin. proprius - «own special" and receptor - «receiving»; from the Latin. capio, cepi - «take, take"), deep sensitivity - a sense of the provisions of his own body parts relative to each other.

Due to the aerobic exercise at least twice a week, which combine different types of dance, everyone can maximize the function of your brain. Of course, it is not a convulsive body rush that many are trying to pass off as a dance, and it is about dance, in which the work of not only the body but also the brain.

In professional dancers never dizzy. Why?

If you are prone to dizziness, then you need to learn how to dance! New research has shown that dancing can help to cope with vertigo and improve the sense of balance. In September 2013, researchers from Imperial College London reported that choreographers brain structure is a little different from the structure of the human brain, which is not engaged in dancing. And it is these specific differences help them avoid dizziness during execution of pirouettes.

movements Visualization helps to improve muscle memory

Yet another study, published in an article on psychologicalscience.orgThey showed that the dancers are able to lay out in my mind dance apart and mentally go through each movement, leaving a kind of "markers".

The findings, published in Psychological Science suggests that such labeling can alleviate the conflict between cognitive and physical aspects of dance. It allows dancers to remember the movements and perform them smoothly. They are as if in a stream.

And at this time of their brain is working on all cylinders, thinking through each step, and linking it to the next smoothly as possible. That from the outside it looked like one single, smooth motion, rather than a set of separate discontinuous.

How can this be used?

How can we apply the above studies in everyday life of the common man, not a professional dancer?

If you learn to control it is responsible for this part of the brain can help many people suffering from dizziness not related to other problems in the body. Scientists are working on this problem.

Dr. Barry Simangl from the Medical Department at Imperial College have worked with many patients for whom vertigo became very real problem. Ballet dancers are able to train their brains so that they cease to feel dizzy. Therefore, doctors began to wonder whether they will be able to use the same principles to help their patients.

Visualization and synchronization are quite applicable, for example, in studying foreign languages. As in the case of the dance, the brain needs to perform two actions at the same time - to translate words from one language to another. And do not just translate, and put them into sentences. In addition, if the language differs considerably among themselves, have to work doubly harder.

So, in order to extract the benefits of dance, it is not necessary to become a professional dancer. Dancing for the soul a couple of times a week - this is a great way to improve the performance of the cerebellum, to keep the body in good shape, remove the unpleasant feeling vertigo from his life (one in four people at least occasionally feel dizzy) and facilitate the learning process, for example, foreign languages. The fact that the dances are a great socializing factor, I generally keep quiet.

And how do you feel about dancing?