A 2025 Nature Communications study drew on brain-activity data from 1,473 people across 13 countries and found that expert tango dancers, musicians, visual artists and strategy gamers had brain patterns estimated to be five to seven years younger than those of matched non-experts. In a separate experiment, just 30 hours of StarCraft II training shifted beginners’ estimated brain age by about three years.
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There is a tempting way to read a result like this: learn the tango, pick up a guitar or play a strategy game, and the brain…