Vigorous Exercise Enhances Verbal Fluency Performance in Healthy Young Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

We examined the effects of cardiovascular exercise on verbal fluency using a between-groups design.

Methods

Within our experimental (i.e., exercise) group, participants performed phonemic and semantic verbal fluency tasks (VFTs) before, during, and after a vigorous 30 min bout of cycling. Participants within our control group also completed these VFTs before, during, and after a non-physical activity. We compared the VFT performance of the experimental (exercise) and control (no-exercise) groups of participants in terms of the characteristics of the words that they produced within the VFTs. In addition, we examined these aspects of VFT performance for each participant group across time within the experiment session.

Conclusions

From these compari

SUBMITTER: Khanna MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11763765 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature