Role-playing can improve brain function by running complex algorithms and making predictions from different standpoints.

“These kinds of roleplaying are again ways in which the prefrontal cortex has to expand the number of operations. In neuroscience, we call these algorithms that it has to run in order to make predictions. You have to take in a lot of information about your environment all the time and make predictions. But if you are suddenly cast into a new role, well then you definitely have to make even more predictions from a different standpoint.”