it's a good idea; and what it also is trying to look at is to see if not only the qualitative components of taiji practice make a difference, but also the pattern in which they are arranged has impact; you would need 3 groups to control for this: a group doing taiji in a pattern; a group doing taiji movements in more of a "qigong" manner (do same move each side, in isolation; a group doing some other type of exercise (e,g, - treadmill fast walk); the intersting thing, to me, is that the taiji form is asymmetrical; IMPO, asymmetrical types of practice engage the cognitive / memory system more so than symmetrical ones, simply because as being aymmetrical, there is more "contrast" of sorts; so they may be onto something here...Originally Posted by GeneChing
would be curious to see how this pans out
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