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Changes in cognitive control and mood across repeated exercise sessions.

Teran Nieman¹, Maximilian Bergelt², Jessica Clancy¹

¹Western University, London, ON, Canada.

Applied Psychology. Health and Well-Being

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Regular exercise consistently improves cognitive control and mood within sessions. These acute exercise benefits are reproducible across multiple exercise sessions, suggesting potential for accumulated cognitive gains.

Keywords:

affect cognition exercise inhibition mood

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Area of Science:

Exercise science
Cognitive psychology
Sports medicine

Background:

Acute exercise is known to benefit cognition and mood.
The consistency and cumulative effects of exercise across multiple sessions are not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the reproducibility and accumulation of cognitive control and mood changes across multiple exercise sessions.
To evaluate the impact of repeated moderate-intensity cycling on cognitive function and emotional state.

Main Methods:

Thirty healthy young adults were divided into exercise (moderate-intensity cycling) and control (reading) groups.
Participants completed six sessions over two weeks, with cognitive control assessed via a Flanker task and mood via the Bond-Lader Visual Analog Scale (VAS).

Main Results:

Both cognitive control and mood showed acute improvements within sessions following exercise compared to the control group.
These acute effects were consistent across all exercise sessions.
Cognitive control demonstrated improvement across sessions in both exercise and control groups, indicating learning effects.

Conclusions:

Acute exercise benefits for cognition and mood are consistent and reproducible across multiple sessions.
Learning effects on cognitive tasks, like the Flanker task, can accumulate over repeated trials and sessions.
Further research is needed to explore the accumulated mood effects and the link between acute exercise and long-term cognitive benefits.