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Cognitive Ability Improvement in Indian Classical Dancing: A Study in Bengalee Females

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Ergonomics for Design and Innovation (HWWE 2021)

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Lack of physical activity and increased longevity are having adverse impact on both physical and mental health in the adult population. Amongst other physical activities, Indian Classical Dancing (ICD) has its unique features including memorization. With this initial information, the present study aimed to investigate the impact of ICDs on the various cognitive abilities of healthy Bengalee adults. The study was conducted on female individuals having otherwise sedentary occupations and being trained in either Bharatnatyam dance (BD) or Kathak dance (KD) (age range 18–30 years). BD and KD had 42 and 54 females receiving training for a minimum span of 6 years and practicing either of the dances at least 360 h in a week (at least 1 h each day). The Control Group (CG) consisted 45 females of similar age, occupation, social and economic status but not undergoing any dance or exercise training. Cognitive performance analyses in terms of MMSE, SCWT, TMT, DSB and reaction time tests were done. It was found that the adult female individuals practicing BD or KD regularly have significantly (P < 0.05) favorable cognitive ability compared to their age, gender and occupation matched counterparts. The results suggested that BD and KD despite being a mode of relaxation helps in maintaining better cognitive ability. Thus BD and KD may be a potential tool and can be incorporated in the daily living agenda of adult females to facilitate maintain their cognitive performance and also improve the system performance as a whole.

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    Surjani Chatterjee, Neepa Banerjee, Sandipan Chatterjee, Sweety Bardhan, Sayantika Saha & Shankarashis Mukherjee

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Chatterjee, S., Banerjee, N., Chatterjee, S., Bardhan, S., Saha, S., Mukherjee, S. (2022). Cognitive Ability Improvement in Indian Classical Dancing: A Study in Bengalee Females. In: Chakrabarti, D., Karmakar, S., Salve, U.R. (eds) Ergonomics for Design and Innovation. HWWE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 391. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94277-9_62

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