Dynamic movements in sports like dance or soccer are conducive to neuroplasticity.

“And those particular forms of play again, are not designed to necessarily just engage the plasticity that allows you to perform that behavior, but rather to expand the number of possibilities for your brain to change in general throughout life and the two major forms of those for which there's good Peer Reviewed Research is to engage in novel forms of movement, including different speeds of movement.”

“And the two major forms of those for which there's good peer-reviewed research is to engage in novel forms of movement including different speeds of movement. So let's say for instance you're somebody who runs. Running doesn't lend itself to a lot of novel forms of movement lateral movement. So so for you nerds out there movement in the sagittal plane um or angled movements. But it does appear that things like dance or sports where you end up generating a lot of dynamic movements where there's jumping, where there's movement at different angles, where there's ducking, where there's leaping that basically involve a lot of dynamic movement and aren't just strictly linear, those seem to open the portals for plasticity.”