The Relationship between Exercise Modality and Stroop Task in Older Adults

• Main Authors: Yang, Kao-Teng, 楊高騰
• Other Authors: Chang, Yu-Kai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28255384307329122178

碩士 === 國立體育大學 === 競技與教練科學研究所 === 103 === A growing body of literature has demonstrated that there is a declining of cognitive function as people aged. The issue of cognitive decline is of important to investigate because according to World Health Organization, cognitive function has been recognized as a primary component of health-related quality of life. Fortunately, previous research has shown that exercise is linked positively to cognitive function in older population in which many studies have shown that enhanced cognitive function is accompanied by improvement of cardiovascular fitness induced by regularly participation of exercise. The purpose of the study was attempted to extend the positive findings by examine whether different types of exercise participation would impact cognition differently. Sixty-six adult was recruited and separate intro either continuous skill-related exercise group, serial skill-related exercise group, and control group. The cognitive function as measured by Stroop Test with congruent and incongruent condition where the conditions were presented by mixed design. The main findings indicated that although there was none of significant difference regarding reaction time among three groups irrespectively on Stroop congruent and incongruent condition, serial skill-related exercise group shown significant better accuracy in incongruent compare with continuous skill-related exercise group and control group. This funding suggest participating exercise involved complex skills may benefit for cognitive function, particularly executive function aspect of cognitive processing.