Balance, Sensorimotor, and Cognitive Performance in Long-Year Expert Senior Ballroom Dancers

Table 2

Indices of performance (IP) averaged across individual tasks describing cognition, reaction times, posture and balance, and motor, and tactile performance for both groups.

Domain	ED	(Range)	CG	(Range)	𝑍-score	𝑃 value	Effect size
Cognitive performance	0.73±0.04	(0.38–1)	0.61±0.04	(0–1)	−1.389	0.165	0.47
Reaction time	0.70±0.02	(0.49–0.93)	0.52±0.02	(0–0.87)	−3.462	0.001	1.02
Posture and balance	0.70±0.04	(0–1)	0.37±0.04	(0–1)	−5.599	≤0.001	1.26
Motor performance	0.74±0.02	(0–1)	0.70±0.01	(0–1)	−1.753	0.080	0.19
Tactile performance	0.56±0.03	(0–0.99)	0.60±0.02	(0–1)	−1.485	0.138	0.44

ED: expert dancer, CG: control group; Values are means, SEM.