The Effect of Exercise and Music on the Creativity of College Students

The Experimental Effects of Acute Walking on Cognitive Creativity Performance

“…Unlike previous work [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23], we did not observe any beneficial effect of acute walking exercise on creativity task performance. This is an important observation as it brings light to the possibility that acute exercise may not robustly enhance cognitive creativity performance.…”

“…Collectively, the current research suggests that exercise prior to a creativity task may help to facilitate creativity [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. This aligns with other work on exercise and memory [3][4][5][6][7][8][9].…”

“…This may help spawn the development of additional research to see if, for example, exercise intensity or exercise modality may have a differential effect on cognitive creativity. As stated, majority of the work on this topic has provided some suggestive evidence that exercise can acutely improve creativity [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. However, not all work demonstrates such a beneficial effect.…”

“…Exercise psychologists have also become increasingly interested in examining whether exercise can enhance other cognitive parameters, namely cognitive creativity. Compared to research examining the effects of exercise on memory, this emerging line of research examining the effects of exercise on creativity has been considerably less investigated [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23].…”

“…As noted, emerging work suggests that exercise may help to enhance creativity [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. The mechanism(s) to explain this potential relationship is not clear.…”