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by aithrowawaycomm 625 days ago
Musical cognition is loosely connected to attention (maybe disconnected entirely by this metric, music seems special) and spatial memory is irrelevant. So "better dancers" seems a bit myopic, they might be improving their understanding of rhythm and melody in a more general sense.

(IMO the headline-level conclusion of this study is unsurprising - dancing is far more cognitively demanding than gym exercise!)