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ArticleCommunications biology2025

Physical activity simultaneously improves working memory and ripple-spindle coupling.

Xinyun Che, Benedikt Auer, Paul Schmid, Christoph Reichert, Annemarie Scholz, Tom Weischner, Robert T Knight, Stefan Dürschmid

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Article in Communications biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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8 authors.

Xinyun CheLeibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany.
Benedikt AuerLeibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany.
Paul SchmidLeibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany.
Christoph ReichertLeibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8649-9791
Annemarie ScholzLeibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-0204-9556
Tom WeischnerLeibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany.
Robert T KnightDepartments of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8686-1685
Stefan DürschmidLeibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany. stefan.duerschmid@lin-magdeburg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6686-976X

Funding

Attention, Orientation and the Human Prefrontal CortexR01NS021135 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI Robert Thomas Knight · 1985 to 2026
$6.5M
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) SFB 1436NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS021135
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Abstract

Ripples, representing the compressed reactivation of environmental information, provide a mechanism for retaining memory information in chronological order and are also crucial for working memory (WM) during wakefulness. Brief sessions of physical activity (PA) are proposed to boost WM. In concurrent EEG/MEG sessions, we investigated the role of PA in WM performance and high-frequency-ripple to wake spindle coupling. Ripples, identified in MEG sensors covering the medial temporal lobe (MTL) region, predicted individual WM performance. Ripples were locked to robust oscillatory patterns in the EEG defined spindle band. Wake spindle activity and ripples decrease during initial stimulus presentation and rebound after 1 sec. Behaviorally, PA enhanced WM performance. Neurophysiologically, PA scaled the ripple rate with the number of items to be kept in WM and strengthened the coupling between ripple events and wake spindle events. These findings reveal that PA modulates WM by coordinating ripple-spindle interaction.

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ExerciseMemory, Short-TermAdultElectroencephalographyFemaleHumansMagnetoencephalographyMaleWakefulnessYoung Adult

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PMID40781358
PMCPMC12334720

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