Dr. Tommy Wood

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Huberman Lab · Accelerate Learning & Increase Cognitive Capacity | Dr. Tommy Wood · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

But if you're thinking about some of the things that we have very good evidence for that kind of hit multiple...

networks at the same time dancing is probably number one learning a new dance learning a new dance solo or with someone else i'm sort of half joking but some people dance on their own some people dance with someone else so like dancing on your own in your living room highly encouraged right it's a great form physical activity it's fun you know of course the um

The best evidence is for ballroom and line dancing, which generally requires, and so there are meta-analyses of these interventions in older adults showing that ballroom and line dancing have the greatest effect on cognitive function.

And so both of those require other people, as well as learning various sets of movements.

So you have skill learning, you have social interaction, and you have the physical activity component.

There's probably also the musical component where you have to listen for the timing of the music and those kinds of things that is its own skill set.

So dancing has a large body evidence behind it.

But then I think, you know, in the exercise realm, you've got all the sort of ball sports, board sports, team sports.

I think skateboarding would be a great example as long as you wear a helmet and don't hit your head too often.

Most martial arts, again, as long as somebody's not punching you in the face too much.

Something like Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

Yeah.

Exactly.

So like there's a physical component, there's a complex motor skill component.

Usually there's a social component.

There's a lot of responding, reacting to the environment or your opponent, right?

So then talking about processing speed again.

But then beyond that, there's some really interesting data on some other creative arts that do seem to have some effect on network stability and function in the brain, particularly the networks like the frontal parietal network that we know is really important for focus and attention, and its function does tend to decrease with age.

So things like creative or visual arts, maybe some similar effects of learning a language.

Again, similar effects from learning to play video games.

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