"Aging is a complicated thing, and no two people age in the exact same way. You might encounter someone in their seventies who seems decades older; you might also take in a jazz performance by a centenarian saxophone player. A few weeks ago, I saw Willie Nelson, still crooning and playing the guitar at the age of 92. Not everyone has the same support infrastructure as a touring musician - but that doesn't mean there aren't applicable lessons to be learned here."
"It's also worth pointing out that these researchers used a broad definition of creativity, here using it to mean "the ability to produce ideas or solutions that are both novel and effective using one's imagination." That could mean an epic guitar solo; it might also involve a deep run in Caves of Qud. (Or StarCraft II, which the researchers conducting the study used.)"
Creative experiences such as playing musical instruments, dancing, and video gaming associate with delayed brain aging. Cross-domain creative engagement correlates with smaller brain age gaps, defined as deviations between chronological age and brain age. Higher levels of expertise and performance associate with greater delays in brain age. A broad definition of creativity includes the ability to produce ideas or solutions that are both novel and effective using one's imagination. Examples of creative activities with measurable effects include guitar playing, tango dancing, and competitive video games like StarCraft II. Expert tango dancers showed some of the largest age-delaying effects, with brains appearing several years younger.
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