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Pupil dynamics during very light exercise predict benefits to prefrontal cognition.
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- Acute physiological and pupillary responses during power snatch and clean & jerk training sessions in elite female weightlifters.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Fidgeting Increases Pupil Diameter During Auditory Processing in Young Healthy Adults.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Short playful interactions improve executive functions in children.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Predicting long-term memory via pupillometry.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Resting-state blink rate does not increase following very-light-intensity exercise, but individual variation predicts executive function enhancement levels.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2025Article
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- Enriched Exercise Environment Boosting Exercise Effects on the Brain: Beneficial Effects of Music.Advances in neurobiology · 2025Review
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- Acute effect of low-intensity aerobic exercise on eliciting enhanced parietal activation and promoting executive function performance more than moderate-intensity exercise.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Pupil Dynamics Predict Exercise Brain Stimulation: An Overview of Exercise Pupillometry.Advances in neurobiology · 2025Review
- Light-exercise-induced dopaminergic and noradrenergic stimulation in the dorsal hippocampus: Using a rat physiological exercise model.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2024Article
- Resistance exercising on unstable surface leads to Pupil Dilation.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Pupil Dynamics, Salivary Alpha-Amylase, and Prefrontal Haemodynamics in Response to Very Light Exercise.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024Article
- Slow running benefits: Boosts in mood and facilitation of prefrontal cortex function even at very light intensity.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)Article
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Abstract
Physical exercise, even stress-free very-light-intensity exercise such as yoga and very slow running, can have beneficial effects on executive function, possibly by potentiating prefrontal cortical activity. However, the exact mechanisms underlying this potentiation have not been identified. Evidence from studies using pupillometry demonstrates that pupil changes track the real-time dynamics of activity linked to arousal and attention, including neural circuits from the locus coeruleus to the cortex. This makes it possible to examine whether pupil-linked brain dynamics induced during very-light-intensity exercise mediate benefits to prefrontal executive function in healthy young adults. In this experiment, pupil diameter was measured during 10 min of very-light-intensity exercise (30% V˙o
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