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- Title
Acute Effect of Exercise on Cognitive Performance in Middle-Aged Adults: Aerobic Versus Balance.
- Authors
Formenti, Damiano; Cavaggioni, Luca; Duca, Marco; Trecroci, Athos; Rapelli, Mattia; Alberti, Giampietro; Komar, John; Iodice, Pierpaolo
- Abstract
Background: Recent evidence has suggested that chronic physical activities including balance exercises have positive effects on cognition, but their acute effects are still unknown. In the present study, the authors tested the hypothesis that an acute bout of balance exercise would enhance cognitive performance compared with aerobic activity. Methods: A total of 20 healthy middleaged adults completed 2 acute 30-minute balance and moderate-intensity aerobic exercise sessions on 2 counterbalanced separate occasions. To assess cognitive functions, performance tasks in executive control, perceptual speed, and simple reaction time were tested before and immediately after each exercise session. Results: Although there were no significant interactions (time × exercise condition, P > .05), the main effects of time were significant in executive control (P < .05), perceptual speed (P < .05), and simple reaction time (P < .001), showing improvements after both exercises. Conclusions: These findings highlight that both types of exercise (aerobic, more metabolic and less cognitively demanding; balance, more cognitively and less metabolically demanding) were able to positively affect simple reaction time performance, perceptual speed, and executive control independently of physiological adjustments occurring during aerobic or balance exercise.
- Subjects
HEALTH of middle-aged persons; AEROBIC exercises; PHYSICAL activity; COGNITIVE ability; COGNITION
- Publication
Journal of Physical Activity & Health, 2020, Vol 17, Issue 8, p773
- ISSN
1543-3080
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1123/jpah.2020-0005