ArticleEurope's journal of psychology2021
The Effects of Acute Exercise on Short- and Long-Term Memory: Considerations for the Timing of Exercise and Phases of Memory.
Article in Europe's journal of psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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- The effects of acute exercise on memory: considerations for exercise duration and participant body mass index.Psychological research · 2025Article
- Memory persistence enhancement by post-learning moderate exercise requires de novo protein synthesis in the dorsal hippocampus.PloS one · 2025Article
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- Multimodal Physical Exercise Affects Visuo-Spatial Working Memory: Preliminary Evidence from a Descriptive Study on Tai-Chi Practitioners and Runners.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Aerobic exercise after extinction learning reduces return of fear and enhances memory of items encoded during extinction learning.Mental health and physical activity · 2023Article
- Cognitive interventions for memory and psychological well-being in aging and dementias.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Effects of acute exercise on emotional memory.Cognition & emotion · 2022Article
- Effect of acute exercise intensity on cognitive inhibition and well-being: Role of lactate and BDNF polymorphism in the dose-response relationship.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- The effects of acute high-intensity aerobic exercise on cognitive performance: A structured narrative review.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Review
- Acute and Chronic Exercise Effects on Human Memory: What We Know and Where to Go from Here.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- A Review of Cognitive Changes During Acute Aerobic Exercise.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- The beneficial effects of physical exercise on visuospatial working memory in preadolescent children.AIMS neuroscience · 2021Article
- Effects of acute exercise on directed forgetting.Health promotion perspectives · 2020Article
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Abstract
The specific questions addressed from this research include: (1) Does high-intensity acute exercise improve memory?, (2) If so, do the mechanisms occur via encoding, consolidation, or retrieval? and (3) If acute exercise occurs in multiple phases of memory (e.g., before encoding and during consolidation), does this have an additive effect on memory? Three experimental, within-subject, counterbalanced studies were conducted among young adults. High-intensity exercise involved a 20-minutes bout of exercise at 75% of heart rate reserve. Memory was evaluated from a word-list task, including multiple evaluations out to 24-hours post-encoding. The timing of the exercise and memory assessments were carefully positioned to evaluate whether any improvements in memory were driven by mechanisms related to encoding, consolidation, and/or retrieval. We demonstrated that high-intensity acute exercise enhanced memory. This effect was robust (repeatable) and occurred through encoding, consolidation and retrieval-based mechanisms. Further, incorporating acute exercise into multiple phases of memory additively enhanced memory function.
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