ArticleDementia & neuropsychologia
Effects of motor and cognitive dual-task performance in depressive elderly, healthy older adults, and healthy young individuals.
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- Cognitive, functional and affective effects of a multi-task training in nursing home residents: results from a randomized pilot study.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2026Trial
- Observing brain function via functional near-infrared spectroscopy during cognitive program training (dual task) in young people.Journal of physical therapy science · 2019Article
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Abstract
Impairments in dual-task performance can be observed in healthy older adults when motor and cognitive assignments are applied simultaneously. According to the hypofrontality hypothesis, there may be a reduction in frontal cognitive function during exercise.
objectiveThe aim of the present study was to compare the performance changes on cognitive tests of depressive elderly (n=10), healthy older adults (n=10), and healthy young individuals (n=10) during cycle ergometer exercise.
methodsThe groups were submitted to a working memory test, a short memory test and a semantic memory test, before and during a 20-minute cycle ergometer exercise at 80% of their age-predicted maximal heart rate.
resultsSignificant differences (p=0.04) were observed in scores on the digit backward test during exercise when young individuals were compared to healthy older adults. This result indicates that young subjects, as expected, had better performance than elderly. No significant differences were found among the groups for the digit forward subtest (p=0.40) or the vocabulary test (p=0.69).
conclusionData from this study showed that healthy older adults had impaired performance on higher cognitive tasks when these assignments were applied together with motor tasks.
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