Effects of acute exercise on memory: Considerations of exercise intensity, post-exercise recovery period and aerobic endurance.

ABSTRACT: Accumulating research demonstrates that acute exercise can enhance long-term episodic memory. However, it is unclear if there is an intensity-specific effect of acute exercise on long-term episodic memory function and whether this is influenced by the post-exercise recovery period, which was the primary objective of this experiment. Another uncertainty in the literature is whether aerobic endurance influences the interaction between exercise intensity and post-exercise recovery period on long-term episodic memory function, which was a secondary objective of this study. With exercise intensity and post-exercise recovery period occurring as within-subject factors, and fitness as a between-subject factor, 59 participants (M_age = 20 years) completed 12 primary laboratory visits. The

SUBMITTER: Loprinzi PD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9676734 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature