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The effects of cardiorespiratory fitness and acute aerobic exercise on executive functioning and EEG entropy in adolescents

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, October 2015
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Title
The effects of cardiorespiratory fitness and acute aerobic exercise on executive functioning and EEG entropy in adolescents
Published in
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, October 2015
DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00538
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Michael J. Hogan, Denis O’Hora, Markus Kiefer, Sabine Kubesch, Liam Kilmartin, Peter Collins, Julia Dimitrova

Abstract

The current study examined the effects of cardiorespiratory fitness, identified with a continuous graded cycle ergometry, and aerobic exercise on cognitive functioning and entropy of the electroencephalogram (EEG) in 30 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 14 years. Higher and lower fit participants performed an executive function task after a bout of acute exercise and after rest while watching a film. EEG entropy, using the sample entropy measure, was repeatedly measured during the 1500 ms post-stimulus interval to evaluate changes in entropy over time. Analysis of the behavioral data for lower and higher fit groups revealed an interaction between fitness levels and acute physical exercise. Notably, lower fit, but not higher fit, participants had higher error rates (ER) for No Go relative to Go trials in the rest condition, whereas in the acute exercise condition there were no differences in ER between groups; higher fit participants also had significantly faster reaction times in the exercise condition in comparison with the rest condition. Analysis of EEG data revealed that higher fit participants demonstrated lower entropy post-stimulus than lower fit participants in the left frontal hemisphere, possibly indicating increased efficiency of early stage stimulus processing and more efficient allocation of cognitive resources to the task demands. The results suggest that EEG entropy is sensitive to stimulus processing demands and varies as a function of physical fitness levels, but not acute exercise. Physical fitness, in turn, may enhance cognition in adolescence by facilitating higher functionality of the attentional system in the context of lower levels of frontal EEG entropy.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 133 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 24 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 15%
Student > Bachelor 18 13%
Researcher 11 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 7%
Other 14 10%
Unknown 38 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 24 18%
Sports and Recreations 21 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 10%
Neuroscience 10 7%
Engineering 6 4%
Other 19 14%
Unknown 42 31%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 33. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 February 2021.
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