Julia Basso

She said the group has continued to be very beneficial for her because of the cognitive, physical, and social mixture of dance.

Dr. Julia Basso is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise at Virginia Tech and the director of the Embodied Brain Lab.

She said what Hewson understood intuitively from her experience of dance is backed up by research.

I'm really interested in dance as this kind of multimodal physical activity practice because it not only has the sensory and motor aspects like many aerobic exercises, but it's also social in nature, it's emotional in nature, it's creative, it's rhythmic, and it has this cognitive piece to it.

Thanks a lot, Jake.

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A special thanks to today's guests, Carolyn Hewson, Julia Basso, Natasha Goldstein-Levitas, David Leventhal, Emily and Judy Tobey, and Neil Godek, as well as today's co-host, Jason Karlawish.

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