The immediate and sustain effect of an acute bout of aerobic exercise on Tower of London Test

• Main Authors: Feng-Tzu Chen, 陳豐慈
• Other Authors: Yu-Kai Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70415222691843349488

碩士 === 國立體育大學 === 教練研究所 === 99 === Recently, exploring the effect of acute aerobic exercise on cognitive function has received particularly attention. Several narrative reviews and meta-analyses have demonstrated a positive effect, particularly in executive function which show the largest effect size compared to other subtypes of cognitive function. However, majority of previous studies has limited their attention to inhibition and working memory aspect of executive function, and few studies has been explored planning. In addition, few studies have been investigated the sustain effect following acute exercise. Therefore, the purpose of this study to extend the knowledge of these investigations by examining the immediately and sustain effect on planning following an acute bout of aerobic exercise. This study recruit forty participants aged from 20 to 30 yrs, used randomize control assigned to either exercise or a control group. The exercise group was 60% heart rate reserve for 30 minutes of ergometer exercise, and control group involved reading about exercise training. The measurement tool was the Tower of London (TOL) Task, one of the main neuropsychological assessments for measuring planning. The indices of TOL include move score, correct score, time violation score, rule violation score, initiation time, execution time, and problem-solving time score. TOL was assessed at before, immediate after, sustain 30 min after, and sustain 60 min after the each treatment. A two-way repeated ANOVA was computed. The results indicated that there is a significant positive exercise effect on the TOL Task in terms of the Total move score at immediate after, suggesting that exercise is beneficial in move score of present planning. In addition, in sustain 30 min and sustain 60 min conditions, the exercise group’s initial time was longer than control group, suggesting that exercise is beneficial in initial time of present inhibition.