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- Title
Effects of acute exercise on memory: Considerations of exercise intensity, post-exercise recovery period and aerobic endurance.
- Authors
Loprinzi, Paul D.; Roig, Marc; Tomporowski, Phillip D.; Javadi, Amir-Homayoun; Kelemen, William L.
- Abstract
Accumulating research demonstrates that acute exercise can enhance long-term episodic memory. However, it is unclear if there is an intensity-specific effect of acute exercise on long-term episodic memory function and whether this is influenced by the post-exercise recovery period, which was the primary objective of this experiment. Another uncertainty in the literature is whether aerobic endurance influences the interaction between exercise intensity and post-exercise recovery period on long-term episodic memory function, which was a secondary objective of this study. With exercise intensity and post-exercise recovery period occurring as within-subject factors, and fitness as a between-subject factor, 59 participants (Mage = 20 years) completed 12 primary laboratory visits. These visits included a 20-min bout of exercise (Control, Moderate, and Vigorous), followed by a recovery period (1, 5, 10, and 15 min) and then a word-list episodic memory task, involving an encoding phase and two long-term recall assessments (20-min and 24-h delayed recall). The primary finding from this experiment was that moderate and vigorous-intensity exercise improved memory function when compared to a non-exercise control. A secondary finding was that individuals with higher levels of aerobic endurance, compared to their lesser fit counterparts, had greater memory performance after exercise (moderate or vigorous) when compared to after a control condition. Additionally, individuals with higher levels of aerobic endurance, compared to their lesser fit counterparts, generally performed better on the memory task with longer post-exercise recovery periods. Future research should carefully consider these parameters when evaluating the effects of acute exercise on long-term episodic memory.
- Subjects
MEMORY; CONFIDENCE intervals; EXERCISE physiology; PHYSICAL fitness; COGNITION; COOLDOWN; EXERCISE; EXERCISE intensity; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CHI-squared test; DATA analysis software; ODDS ratio; JUDGMENT sampling
- Publication
Memory & Cognition, 2023, Vol 51, Issue 4, p1011
- ISSN
0090-502X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/s13421-022-01373-4