Exercise mode and executive function in older adults: An ERP study of task-switching

Dai, Chih Ta; Chang, Yu Kai; Huang, Chung Ju; Hung, Tsung Min

doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2013.07.007

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“…In sum, our findings parallel and extend to overall PA the notion that regular participation in exercise training, regardless of exercise mode, facilitates reaction speed, but is uninfluential on local switch costs (Dai et al, 2013). In their study across the lifespan, Pesce and Audiffren (2011) found that age and sport expertise independently predicted lower switch costs, whereas we could not find any effect by PA level.…”

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Steps to Health in Cognitive Aging: Effects of Physical Activity on Spatial Attention and Executive Control in the Elderly

Condello

Forte

Falbo

et al. 2017

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate whether physical activity (PA) habits may positively impact performance of the orienting and executive control networks in community-dwelling aging individuals and diabetics, who are at risk of cognitive dysfunction. To this aim, we tested cross-sectionally whether age, ranging from late middle-age to old adulthood, and PA level independently or interactively predict different facets of the attentional performance. Hundred and thirty female and male individuals and 22 adults with type 2 diabetes aged 55–84 years were recruited and their daily PA (steps) was objectively measured by means of armband monitors. Participants performed a multifunctional attentional go/no-go reaction time (RT) task in which spatial attention was cued by means of informative direct cues of different sizes followed by compound stimuli with local and global target features. The performance efficiency of the orienting networks was estimated by computing RT differences between validly and invalidly cued trials, that of the executive control networks by computing local switch costs that are RT differences between switch and non-switch trials in mixed blocks of global and local target trials. In regression analyses performed on the data of non-diabetic elderlies, overall RTs and orienting effects resulted jointly predicted by age and steps. Age predicted overall RTs in low-active individuals, but orienting effects and response errors in high-active individuals. Switch costs were predicted by age only, with larger costs at older age. In the analysis conducted with the 22 diabetics and 22 matched non-diabetic elderlies, diabetic status and daily steps predicted longer and shorter RTs, respectively. Results suggest that high PA levels exert beneficial, but differentiated effects on processing speed and attentional networks performance in aging individuals that partially counteract the detrimental effects of advancing age and diabetic status. In conclusion, adequate levels of overall PA may positively impinge on brain efficiency and attentional control and should be therefore promoted by actions that support lifelong PA participation and impact the built environment to render it more conducive to PA.

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Steps to Health in Cognitive Aging: Effects of Physical Activity on Spatial Attention and Executive Control in the Elderly

Condello

Forte

Falbo

et al. 2017

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…Firstly, although the usefulness of a self-reported estimation of physical activity in this type of study has been shown (Dai, Chang, Huang, & Hung, 2013;Hillman, Motl, et al, 2006;Hillman et al, 2004), it may be worth addressing this issue by using more objective measures (e.g., motion sensors, accelerometers, heart rate monitoring) (Warren et al, 2010). In addition, recent electrophysiological studies have documented an interactive effect of physical fitness and a single bout of exercise on cognitive functioning (e.g., Hogan, Kiefer, Kubesch, Collins, & Brosnan, 2013;.…”

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The association of physical activity to neural adaptability during visuo-spatial processing in healthy elderly adults: A multiscale entropy analysis

Wang

Tsai

Tseng

et al. 2014

Brain and Cognition

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“…Studies investigated exercise effects on cognition using ERPs showed also shorter latency and larger amplitude of the P3b in physically fit than less fit adults in stimulus discrimination tasks (Dai, Chang, Huang, & Hung, 2013;Polich & Lardon, 1997;Pontifex, Hillman, & Polich, 2009;Pontifex et al, 2011) and task switching paradigm (Hillman, Kramer, Belopolsky, & Smith, 2006). In contrast the Ne/ERN indexing error detection (Ne: Falkenstein, Hohnsbein, & Hoormann, 1991;ERN: Gehring, Goss, Coles, Meyer, & Donchin, 1993) was reduced in active individuals Themanson, Hillman, & Curtin, 2006), suggesting that long-term physical exercise influence also response monitoring processes.…”

Section: Erps Of Executive Control and Physical Activitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Long-term habitual physical activity is associated with lower distractibility in a Stroop interference task in aging: Behavioral and ERP evidence

Gajewski

Falkenstein

2015

Brain and Cognition

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Exercise mode and executive function in older adults: An ERP study of task-switching

Cited by 80 publications

References 43 publications

Steps to Health in Cognitive Aging: Effects of Physical Activity on Spatial Attention and Executive Control in the Elderly

Steps to Health in Cognitive Aging: Effects of Physical Activity on Spatial Attention and Executive Control in the Elderly

The association of physical activity to neural adaptability during visuo-spatial processing in healthy elderly adults: A multiscale entropy analysis

Long-term habitual physical activity is associated with lower distractibility in a Stroop interference task in aging: Behavioral and ERP evidence

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