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ReviewFrontiers in psychology2020

Cognitive-Motor Dual Task Interference Effects on Declarative Memory: A Theory-Based Review.

Phillip D Tomporowski, Ahmed S Qazi

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Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Phillip D TomporowskiDepartment of Kinesiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States.
Ahmed S QaziDepartment of Kinesiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bouts of exercise performed either prior to or immediately following study periods enhance encoding and learning. Empirical evidence supporting the benefits of interventions that simultaneously pair physical activity with material to be learned is not conclusive, however. A narrative, theory-based review of dual-task experiments evaluated studies in terms of arousal theories, attention theories, cognitive-energetic theories, and entrainment theories. The pattern of the results of these studies suggests that cognitive-motor interference can either impair or enhance memory of semantic information and the manner in which physical activity impacts working memory within executive processing appears to explain disparate outcomes. The integration and timing of physical movements in concert with the type of information to be encoded and remembered appears to be a critical requirement for learning. These observations have implications for the role of physical activity in education, rehabilitation, and gerontological settings.

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arousal theoryattentional allocationembodied learningexecutive functionlong-term memorymemory consolidationphysical activity

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PMID32670130
PMCPMC7326112

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