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Beneficial effects of acute high-intensity exercise on electrophysiological indices of attention processes in young adult men
BACKGROUND: Emerging research suggests that a single bout of aerobic exercise can improve cognition, brain function and psychological health. Our aim was to examine the effects of high-intensity exercise on cognitive-performance and brain measures of attention, inhibition and performance-monitoring...
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Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6320386/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30465815 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2018.11.024 |
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author | Du Rietz, Ebba Barker, Alan R. Michelini, Giorgia Rommel, Anna-Sophie Vainieri, Isabella Asherson, Philip Kuntsi, Jonna |
author_facet | Du Rietz, Ebba Barker, Alan R. Michelini, Giorgia Rommel, Anna-Sophie Vainieri, Isabella Asherson, Philip Kuntsi, Jonna |
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description | BACKGROUND: Emerging research suggests that a single bout of aerobic exercise can improve cognition, brain function and psychological health. Our aim was to examine the effects of high-intensity exercise on cognitive-performance and brain measures of attention, inhibition and performance-monitoring across a test-battery of three cognitive tasks. METHOD: Using a randomised cross-over design, 29 young men completed three successive cognitive tasks (Cued Continuous Performance Task [CPT-OX]; Eriksen Flanker Task; four-choice reaction-time task [Fast Task]) with simultaneous electroencephalogram (EEG) recording before and after a 20-min high-intensity cycling exercise and resting control session. Cognitive-performance measures, EEG power and event-related potential measures, were obtained during the tasks. Random-intercept linear models were used to investigate the effects of exercise, compared to rest, on outcomes. RESULTS: A single bout of exercise significantly (p < 0.05) increased the amplitude of the event-related potential Go P3, but had no effect on the contingent negative variation (CNV), Cue P3 or NoGo P3, during the CPT-OX. Delta power, recorded during the CPT-OX, also significantly increased after exercise, whereas there was no effect on cognitive-performance in this task. Exercise did not influence any cognitive-performance or brain measures in the subsequent Flanker or Fast Tasks. CONCLUSION: Acute high-intensity exercise improves brain-indices reflecting executive and sustained attention during task performance (Go P3 and delta activity), in the CPT-OX, but not anticipatory attention (Cue P3 and CNV) or response inhibition (NoGo P3) in young-adult men. Exercise had no effect on cognitive-performance or brain measures in the subsequent Flanker and Fast tasks, which may potentially be explained by the time delay after exercise. |
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spelling | pubmed-63203862019-02-01 Beneficial effects of acute high-intensity exercise on electrophysiological indices of attention processes in young adult men Du Rietz, Ebba Barker, Alan R. Michelini, Giorgia Rommel, Anna-Sophie Vainieri, Isabella Asherson, Philip Kuntsi, Jonna Behav Brain Res Article BACKGROUND: Emerging research suggests that a single bout of aerobic exercise can improve cognition, brain function and psychological health. Our aim was to examine the effects of high-intensity exercise on cognitive-performance and brain measures of attention, inhibition and performance-monitoring across a test-battery of three cognitive tasks. METHOD: Using a randomised cross-over design, 29 young men completed three successive cognitive tasks (Cued Continuous Performance Task [CPT-OX]; Eriksen Flanker Task; four-choice reaction-time task [Fast Task]) with simultaneous electroencephalogram (EEG) recording before and after a 20-min high-intensity cycling exercise and resting control session. Cognitive-performance measures, EEG power and event-related potential measures, were obtained during the tasks. Random-intercept linear models were used to investigate the effects of exercise, compared to rest, on outcomes. RESULTS: A single bout of exercise significantly (p < 0.05) increased the amplitude of the event-related potential Go P3, but had no effect on the contingent negative variation (CNV), Cue P3 or NoGo P3, during the CPT-OX. Delta power, recorded during the CPT-OX, also significantly increased after exercise, whereas there was no effect on cognitive-performance in this task. Exercise did not influence any cognitive-performance or brain measures in the subsequent Flanker or Fast Tasks. CONCLUSION: Acute high-intensity exercise improves brain-indices reflecting executive and sustained attention during task performance (Go P3 and delta activity), in the CPT-OX, but not anticipatory attention (Cue P3 and CNV) or response inhibition (NoGo P3) in young-adult men. Exercise had no effect on cognitive-performance or brain measures in the subsequent Flanker and Fast tasks, which may potentially be explained by the time delay after exercise. Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press 2019-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6320386/ /pubmed/30465815 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2018.11.024 Text en © 2018 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Du Rietz, Ebba Barker, Alan R. Michelini, Giorgia Rommel, Anna-Sophie Vainieri, Isabella Asherson, Philip Kuntsi, Jonna Beneficial effects of acute high-intensity exercise on electrophysiological indices of attention processes in young adult men |
title | Beneficial effects of acute high-intensity exercise on electrophysiological indices of attention processes in young adult men |
title_full | Beneficial effects of acute high-intensity exercise on electrophysiological indices of attention processes in young adult men |
title_fullStr | Beneficial effects of acute high-intensity exercise on electrophysiological indices of attention processes in young adult men |
title_full_unstemmed | Beneficial effects of acute high-intensity exercise on electrophysiological indices of attention processes in young adult men |
title_short | Beneficial effects of acute high-intensity exercise on electrophysiological indices of attention processes in young adult men |
title_sort | beneficial effects of acute high-intensity exercise on electrophysiological indices of attention processes in young adult men |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6320386/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30465815 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2018.11.024 |
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