Self-reported free-living physical activity and executive control in young adults

Autor: G. Kyle Gooderham, Simon Ho, Todd C. Handy
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Male
Questionnaires
Social Sciences
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Task (project management)
Executive Function
0302 clinical medicine
Cognition
Surveys and Questionnaires
Medicine and Health Sciences
Psychology
Attention
Public and Occupational Health
Young adult
Fatigue
Multidisciplinary
Research Design
Medicine
Female
Clinical psychology
Research Article
Adult
Science
Cognitive Neuroscience
Control (management)
Physical activity
Motor Activity
Research and Analysis Methods
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
Signs and Symptoms
Diagnostic Medicine
Reaction Time
Humans
Effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance
Exercise physiology
Exercise
Behavior
Survey Research
Cognitive Psychology
Biology and Life Sciences
030229 sport sciences
Physical Activity
Young Adults
Age Groups
People and Places
Cognitive Science
Population Groupings
Self Report
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Cognitive load
Neuroscience
Zdroj: PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE, Vol 13, Iss 12, p e0209616 (2018)
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: To what extent do our free-living physical activity (PA) levels impact our cognition? For example, if we engage in more intense PA from one week to the next, does this have a corresponding influence on cognitive performance? Across three studies, young adults completed a validated self-report questionnaire (the International Physical Activity Questionnaire, or IPAQ) assessing their involvement in PA at low, moderate, and vigorous intensities over the past week, as well as computer-based measures of executive control and attentional function. In Experiment 1 we found no significant effect of PA intensity on any of our measures of executive control. In a pair of follow-up control studies we examined whether these null findings could be attributed to testing fatigue and task complexity (Experiment 2), or low cognitive demands of the task (Experiment 3). Despite simplifying the task, reducing testing time, and increasing the cognitive load of the task, we still found no significant impact of weekly PA intensity on our measures of executive control. Taken together, our results show that self-reported PA over the past week, at any intensity level, does not appear to have a substantive impact on executive control.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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