ArticleActa psychologica2014
A single bout of resistance exercise can enhance episodic memory performance.
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- The effects of acute exercise on long-term episodic memory: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in cognition · 2024Pooled it
- Frequency of resistance training does not affect inhibitory control or improve strength in well-trained young adults.PloS one · 2018Trial
- Combined exercise and Hawthorn protect against learning impairments and hippocampal damage from trimethyltin neurotoxicity in rat.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Enhanced memory and hippocampal connectivity in humans 2 days after brief resistance exercise.Brain and behavior · 2024Article
- The effects of an acute Tai Chi on emotional memory and prefrontal cortex activation: a fNIRS study.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- Implications of Physical Exercise on Episodic Memory and Anxiety: The Role of the Serotonergic System.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Effects of Linpan nature therapy on health benefits in older women with and without hypertension.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Effects of an Exercise Program Combining Aerobic and Resistance Training on Protein Expressions of Neurotrophic Factors in Obese Rats Injected with Beta-Amyloid.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Effects of acute exercise on emotional memory.Cognition & emotion · 2022Article
- Can exercise shape your brain? A review of aerobic exercise effects on cognitive function and neuro-physiological underpinning mechanisms.AIMS neuroscience · 2022Review
- Increased cortisol levels caused by acute resistance physical exercise impair memory and learning ability.PeerJ · 2022Article
- Exercise Dosage in Reducing the Risk of Dementia Development: Mode, Duration, and Intensity-A Narrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- Experimental Effects of Acute High-Intensity Resistance Exercise on Episodic Memory Function: Consideration for Post-Exercise Recovery Period.Journal of lifestyle medicine · 2020Article
- Comparative overview of the effects of aerobic and resistance exercise on anxiety-like behavior, cognitive flexibility, and hippocampal synaptic plasticity parameters in healthy rats.Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologica · 2020Article
- The Temporal Effects of Acute Exercise on Episodic Memory Function: Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.Brain sciences · 2019Review
- Functional and/or structural brain changes in response to resistance exercises and resistance training lead to cognitive improvements - a systematic review.European review of aging and physical activity : official journal of the European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity · 2019Article
- The Experimental Effects of Acute Exercise on Long-Term Emotional Memory.Journal of clinical medicine · 2018Article
- NEVER forget: negative emotional valence enhances recapitulation.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2018Review
- Effect of Volume in Resistance Training on Inhibitory Control in Young Adults: A Randomized and Crossover Investigation.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Acute aerobic exercise can be beneficial to episodic memory. This benefit may occur because exercise produces a similar physiological response as physical stressors. When administered during consolidation, acute stress, both physical and psychological, consistently enhances episodic memory, particularly memory for emotional materials. Here we investigated whether a single bout of resistance exercise performed during consolidation can produce episodic memory benefits 48 h later. We used a one-leg knee extension/flexion task for the resistance exercise. To assess the physiological response to the exercise, we measured salivary alpha amylase (a biomarker of central norepinephrine), heart rate, and blood pressure. To test emotional episodic memory, we used a remember-know recognition memory paradigm with equal numbers of positive, negative, and neutral IAPS images as stimuli. The group that performed the exercise, the active group, had higher overall recognition accuracy than the group that did not exercise, the passive group. We found a robust effect of valence across groups, with better performance on emotional items as compared to neutral items and no difference between positive and negative items. This effect changed based on the physiological response to the exercise. Within the active group, participants with a high physiological response to the exercise were impaired for neutral items as compared to participants with a low physiological response to the exercise. Our results demonstrate that a single bout of resistance exercise performed during consolidation can enhance episodic memory and that the effect of valence on memory depends on the physiological response to the exercise.
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