The interactive effects of physical fitness and acute aerobic exercise on electrophysiological coherence and cognitive performance in adolescents

Abstract

may enhance cognition by increasing the efficacy of the attentional system.

Effects of acute aerobic exercise on response preparation in a Go/No Go Task in children with ADHD: An ERP study

“…A shorter RT in the Go/No Go Task immediately following exercise was revealed in children with ADHD, and such an accelerated response to task stimuli is consistent with previous findings, 39 providing evidence for the benefits of acute exercise in the ADHD population. The Go/No Go Task is a forceddiscriminative RT task that demands rapid responses to Go signals while inhibiting prepotent responses to No Go signals that are administered in a state of uncertainty, making it ideal to assess the processes of behavioral impulsivity.…”

Experienced stress produces inhibitory deficits in old adults’ Flanker task performance: First evidence for lifetime stress effects beyond memory

“…In terms of attentional control, alpha ERS is linked to the successful inhibition of brain regions not necessary for stimulus processing or maintenance (Cooper et al, 2003;Klimesch, 2012), thereby facilitating the reduction of potentially distracting information (Sauseng et al, 2009). In line with these accounts, a number of Flanker studies report heightened levels of alpha synchronisation (Hogan et al, 2013;Compton et al, 2014). Similarly to the behavioural findings, electrophysiological results can therefore be explained in two possible ways.…”

“…As such, alpha synchronisation observed during Flanker task performance has likewise been linked to task evoked inhibitory attentional and sensorimotor control processes (Hogan et al, 2013). For example, Compton and colleagues (2014) reported increased levels of alpha synchronisation over frontal and parietal as well as motor regions following errors committed on a Flanker task, especially in motivational trials promising a monetary return.…”

The association of physical activity to neural adaptability during visuo-spatial processing in healthy elderly adults: A multiscale entropy analysis

“…Firstly, although the usefulness of a self-reported estimation of physical activity in this type of study has been shown (Dai, Chang, Huang, & Hung, 2013;Hillman, Motl, et al, 2006;Hillman et al, 2004), it may be worth addressing this issue by using more objective measures (e.g., motion sensors, accelerometers, heart rate monitoring) (Warren et al, 2010). In addition, recent electrophysiological studies have documented an interactive effect of physical fitness and a single bout of exercise on cognitive functioning (e.g., Hogan, Kiefer, Kubesch, Collins, & Brosnan, 2013;. Further studies are thus warranted to investigate how such interaction may affect brain signal complexity.…”