ArticleScientific reports2020
Effects of caffeine intake and exercise intensity on executive and arousal vigilance.
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- Testing thought-probe frequency for measuring mind-wandering along with vigilance and cognitive control loss: A study with the ANTI-Vea task.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- Individual differences in brain attention networks: the challenge of indexing temporal change.Frontiers in cognition · 2025Article
- Understanding vigilance and its decrement: theoretical, contextual, and neural insights.Frontiers in cognition · 2025Review
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- The role of arousal in maintaining the relationship between insomnia and gastrointestinal conditions.Translational gastroenterology and hepatology · 2024Review
- The ANTI-Vea-UGR Platform: A Free Online Resource to Measure Attentional Networks (Alertness, Orienting, and Executive Control) Functioning and Executive/Arousal Vigilance.Journal of Intelligence · 2023Article
- Event-related potentials associated with attentional networks evidence changes in executive and arousal vigilance.Psychophysiology · 2023Article
- The brain in motion-cognitive effects of simultaneous motor activity.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2023Review
- Mental Performance and Sport: Caffeine and Co-consumed Bioactive Ingredients.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Review
- A vigilance decrement comes along with an executive control decrement: Testing the resource-control theory.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Article
- The therapeutic potential of exercise and caffeine on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in athletes.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Review
- Measuring attention and vigilance in the laboratory vs. online: The split-half reliability of the ANTI-Vea.Behavior research methods · 2021Article
- Attentional networks functioning and vigilance in expert musicians and non-musicians.Psychological research · 2021Article
- A Review of Cognitive Changes During Acute Aerobic Exercise.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Effects of fatigue on attention and vigilance as measured with a modified attention network test.Experimental brain research · 2020Article
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Abstract
During physical efforts and sport practice, vigilance is responsible for maintaining an optimal state of activation, guaranteeing the ability to quickly respond and detect unexpected, but critical, stimuli over time. Caffeine and physical exercise are able to modulate the activation state, affecting vigilance performance. The aim of the present work was to assess the specific effects and modulations of caffeine intake and two physical intensities on vigilance components. Participants performed an attentional task (ANTI-Vea) to measure the executive and arousal components of vigilance, in six double-blinded counterbalanced sessions combining caffeine, placebo, or no-ingestion, with light vs. moderate cyclergometer exercise. Exercise at moderate intensity improved executive vigilance with faster overall reaction time (RT), without impairing error rates. Instead, caffeine intake generally improved arousal vigilance. In conclusion, caffeine and acute exercise seems to moderate executive and arousal vigilance in different ways.
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