ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
A Single Bout of Aerobic Exercise Provides an Immediate "Boost" to Cognitive Flexibility.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07727577 (Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Acute High-Intensity Exercise Effects on Brain and Cognitive Function in Older Adults), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Acute High-Intensity Exercise Effects on Brain and Cognitive Function in Older Adults
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Does music support executive functions and affective responses during acute exercise? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Look into my eyes: What can eye-based measures tell us about the relationship between physical activity and cognitive performance?Journal of sport and health science · 2023Pooled it
- The impact of a 12-Week yoga intervention on attentional performance in school-aged children: a randomized controlled trial in Western China.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- The effects of an acute exercise on executive function in Chinese undergraduate students.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Effect of Physical Exercise on Executive Functions Using the Emotional Stroop Task in Perimenopausal Women: A Pilot Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Examining Relationships between Cognitive Flexibility, Exercise Perceptions, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2023Article
- Brain Health Indicators Following Acute Neuro-Exergaming: Biomarker and Cognition in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) after Pedal-n-Play (iPACES).Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Acute stress imparts a transient benefit to task-switching that is not modulated following a single bout of exercise.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Brief moderate-intensity aerobic exercise improves the executive function of Chinese undergraduates regardless of mobile phone addiction: Evidence from the antisaccade task.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- PE augmented mindfulness: A neurocognitive framework for research and future healthcare.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Differences in the Effects of Reading and Aerobic Exercise Interventions on Inhibitory Control of College Students With Mobile Phone Addiction.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Pupillometry Reveals the Role of Arousal in a Postexercise Benefit to Executive Function.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Increased cerebral blood flow supports a single-bout postexercise benefit to executive function: evidence from hypercapnia.Journal of neurophysiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Executive function includes the core components of working memory, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility. A wealth of studies demonstrate that working memory and inhibitory control improve following a single bout of exercise; however, a paucity - and equivocal - body of work has demonstrated a similar benefit for cognitive flexibility. Cognitive flexibility underlies switching between different attentional- and motor-related goals, and a potential limitation of previous work examining this component in an exercise context is that they included tasks involving non-executive processes (i.e., numerosity, parity, and letter judgments). To address this issue, Experiment 1 employed a 20-min bout of aerobic exercise and examined pre- and immediate post-exercise cognitive flexibility via stimulus-driven (SD) and minimally delayed (MD) saccades ordered in an AABB task-switching paradigm. Stimulus-driven saccades are a standard task requiring a response at target onset, whereas MD saccades are a non-standard and top-down task requiring a response only
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