Dalton, Connor;
Edgar, Chloe;
Tari, Benjamin;
Heath, Matthew;
(2024)
Passive exercise provides a simultaneous and postexercise executive function benefit.
Frontiers in Cognition
, 3
10.3389/fcogn.2024.1334258.
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Abstract
Introduction: Passive exercise involves limb movement via an external force and is an intervention providing an immediate postexercise executive function (EF) benefit. It is, however, unknown whether EF is improved simultaneous with passive exercise, a salient question given the advent of passive and active exercise workstations designed to enhance productivity and wellbeing for individuals engaged in sedentary occupations. / / Methods: Here, participants (N = 23) completed separate twenty minute conditions involving active exercise via volitional muscle activation and passive exercise via mechanically driven cycle ergometer, as well as a non exercise control condition. EF was assessed prior to intervention, simultaneous with, and immediately after each condition via the antipointing task. Antipointing involves a goal directed limb movement mirror symmetrical to a target and is an ideal tool for the current investigation given that the task is mediated via EF inhibitory control networks that show response dependent changes following a single bout of exercise. / / Results and discussion: Results showed that passive exercise produced a simultaneous and post intervention reduction in antipointing reaction time, whereas active exercise selectively produced a post intervention, but not simultaneous, reaction time reduction. Thus, passive and active exercise elicited a postexercise EF benefit. However, only passive exercise produced a simultaneous benefit. That passive, but not active, exercise produced a simultaneous benefit may reflect that the intervention provides the necessary physiological or psychological changes to elicit improved EF efficiency without the associated dual task costs of volitional muscle activity.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Passive exercise provides a simultaneous and postexercise executive function benefit |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fcogn.2024.1334258 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcogn.2024.1334258 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2024 Dalton, Edgar, Tari and Heath. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
| Keywords: | antipointing, cognition, cortical hemodynamics, inhibitory control, oculomotor |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Surgery and Interventional Sci |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10211619 |
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