Ballroom Dancing Promotes Neural Activity in the Sensorimotor System: A Resting-State fMRI Study

Table 1

The demographic data of the dancer group and control group.

	Dancer group	Control group	value
Age (years)	20.83 ± 1.56	20.82 ± 0.81	>0.05
Education (years)	14.96 ± 0.83	15.10 ± 0.44	>0.05
BMI (kg/m^2)	19.43 ± 1.52	18.56 ± 1.24	>0.05
Years of training	9.00 ± 3.33	0	<0.01
Frequency (times/week)	2–6	0	<0.01
Duration (hours)	1–3	0	<0.01

Note: BMI: body mass index; data are expressed as mean deviation; values were derived from Student’s -test comparing the two groups. The subtype of the ballroom dance includes rumba, samba, cha-cha, jive, and pasodoble.