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ArticlePloS one2014

Acute aerobic exercise increases cortical activity during working memory: a functional MRI study in female college students.

Lin Li, Wei-Wei Men, Yu-Kai Chang, Ming-Xia Fan, Liu Ji, Gao-Xia Wei

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Article in PloS one, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

73 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 147 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. [Acute effect of vigorous aerobic exercise on the inhibitory control in adolescents].Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Lin LiKey Laboratory of Adolescent Health Assessment and Exercise Intervention, Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China; Physical Education and Health School, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
Wei-Wei MenShanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
Yu-Kai ChangGraduate Institute of Athletics and Coaching Science, National Taiwan Sport University, Taiwan.
Ming-Xia FanShanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
Liu JiKey Laboratory of Adolescent Health Assessment and Exercise Intervention, Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China; Physical Education and Health School, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
Gao-Xia WeiKey Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
East China Normal University · CNInstitute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · CNMinistry of Education of the People's Republic of China · CNNational Taiwan Sport University · TW

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is increasing evidence that acute aerobic exercise is associated with improved cognitive function. However, neural correlates of its cognitive plasticity remain largely unknown. The present study examined the effect of a session of acute aerobic exercise on working memory task-evoked brain activity as well as task performance. A within-subjects design with a counterbalanced order was employed. Fifteen young female participants (M = 19.56, SD = 0.81) were scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging while performing a working memory task, the N-back task, both following an acute exercise session with 20 minutes of moderate intensity and a control rest session. Although an acute session of exercise did not improve behavioral performance, we observed that it had a significant impact on brain activity during the 2-back condition of the N-back task. Specifically, acute exercise induced increased brain activation in the right middle prefrontal gyrus, the right lingual gyrus, and the left fusiform gyrus as well as deactivations in the anterior cingulate cortexes, the left inferior frontal gyrus, and the right paracentral lobule. Despite the lack of an effect on behavioral measures, significant changes after acute exercise with activation of the prefrontal and occipital cortexes and deactivation of the anterior cingulate cortexes and left frontal hemisphere reflect the improvement of executive control processes, indicating that acute exercise could benefit working memory at a macro-neural level. In addition to its effects on reversing recent obesity and disease trends, our results provide substantial evidence highlighting the importance of promoting physical activity across the lifespan to prevent or reverse cognitive and neural decline.

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ExerciseMagnetic Resonance ImagingMemory, Short-TermAdultAnalysis of VarianceCerebral CortexFemaleHumansPsychomotor PerformanceStudentsUniversitiesYoung Adult

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