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- Title
Effects of Acute Exercise Duration on the Inhibition Aspect of Executive Function in Late Middle-Aged Adults.
- Authors
Chang, Yu-Kai; Chen, Feng-Tzu; Kuan, Garry; Wei, Gao-Xia; Chu, Chien-Heng; Yan, Jun; Chen, Ai-Guo; Hung, Tsung-Min
- Abstract
Objective : This study investigated whether acute exercise duration affects inhibition in late middle-aged adults. Methods : Over four separate days, 40 late middle-aged adults completed, in a counterbalanced order, three exercise sessions consisting of single bouts of moderate-to-vigorous intensity cycling, with the main acute exercise durations being 10, 20, and 45 min, and a control session consisting of 30 min of reading. Their inhibition performance was then evaluated by administration of the Stroop test following each session. Results : The participants had shorter mean response times for both the congruent and neutral conditions of the Stroop following the acute exercise lasting 20 min than they did after the control session. The acute exercise lasting 20 min also resulted in shorter response times for both conditions of the Stroop than the acute exercise lasting only 10 min. Meanwhile, the acute exercise lasting 45 min resulted in a shorter mean response time for the neutral Stroop condition than did the control session. Finally, the acute exercise lasting 20 min resulted in the shortest mean response time of all four sessions for the Stroop incongruent condition. Conclusion : The above findings suggest that the moderate-to-vigorous intensity acute exercise lasting 20 min facilitated multiple cognitive function domains in general, whereas the exercise sessions of shorter and longer duration had negligible effects on executive function in the late middle-aged adults. These results highlight the need to consider the duration of any moderate-to-vigorous intensity exercise when developing acute exercise programs to facilitate executive function in aged populations.
- Subjects
MIDDLE-aged persons; REACTION time; STROOP effect; EXERCISE; MUSCLE proteins; EXERCISE intensity
- Publication
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2019, p1
- ISSN
1663-4365
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fnagi.2019.00227