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Habitual exercise is associated with cognitive control and cognitive reappraisal success
- Source :
- Experimental brain research. 235(12)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Habitual exercise is associated with enhanced domain-general cognitive control, such as inhibitory control, selective attention, and working memory, all of which rely on the frontal cortex. However, whether regular exercise is associated with more specific aspects of cognitive control, such as the cognitive control of emotion, remains relatively unexplored. The present study employed a correlational design to determine whether level of habitual exercise was related to performance on the Stroop test measuring selective attention and response inhibition, the cognitive reappraisal task measuring cognitive reappraisal success, and associated changes in prefrontal cortex (PFC) oxygenation using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. 74 individuals (24 men, 50 women, age 18–32 years) participated. Higher habitual physical activity was associated with lower Stroop interference (indicating greater inhibitory control) and enhanced cognitive reappraisal success. Higher habitual exercise was also associated with lower oxygenated hemoglobin (O2Hb) in the PFC in response to emotional information. However, NIRS data indicated that exercise was not associated with cognitive control-associated O2Hb in the PFC. Behaviorally, the findings support and extend the previous findings that habitual exercise relates to more successful cognitive control of neutral information and cognitive reappraisal of emotional information. Future research should explore whether habitual exercise exerts causal benefits to cognitive control and PFC oxygenation, as well as isolate specific cognitive control processes sensitive to change through habitual exercise.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Frontal cortex
Neurology
Adolescent
Emotions
050105 experimental psychology
Developmental psychology
Cognitive reappraisal
03 medical and health sciences
Hemoglobins
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Cognition
Surveys and Questionnaires
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Control (linguistics)
Prefrontal cortex
Habituation, Psychophysiologic
Exercise
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Brain Mapping
Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared
Working memory
General Neuroscience
05 social sciences
Stroop Test
Female
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Stroop effect
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14321106
- Volume :
- 235
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Experimental brain research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a2f188329b4f2e1ec14050fda2919d33