Creative Activities Can Help Young Awet Brains, Here's An Explanation

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JAKARTA - A recent study reveals that there are activities that are carried out regularly can help the brain stay young. This activity is creative activity.

The research was conducted internationally involving 13 countries. Researchers collect data from nearly 1,400 people from various countries.

Some of the participants werepped dancers, musicians, visual artists, or experienced gamers. Others are non-experts who have comparable age, education and gender levels, but without experience in the creative field.

The participants' activities were recorded using magneteoncephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG), to measure in real-time. Then the machine learning model is trained to create brain clocks' for each man, which is useful for predicting the brain age of each participant based on their data.

The brain clock is an artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning model specially designed by scientists to estimate biological age based on scanning results or patterns of healthy activity.

"We want to know whether creative activities are not only fun and emotionally beneficial, but also good for the brain biologically," said lead researcher Carlos Coronel and Agustin Ibanez, quoted from Science Direct, on Friday, October 31, 2025.

Through research, it was found that creative activity, all of which showed a younger looking brain. These results even occur consistently.

Dancers have brains that look younger than seven years of real age. Musicians and visual artists showed brains about five to six years younger, while gamers were about four years younger.

"We also conducted small experiments with non-expert participants who practiced playing the StarCraft II strategy game for 30 hours, to see if short-term creative learning also had a similar impact," the researchers added.