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Background:

  • Verbal fluency tasks (VFTs) assess cognitive processing.
  • The impact of acute exercise on VFTs is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effects of a vigorous 30-minute cycling session on verbal fluency.
  • To compare changes in VFT performance between an exercise group and a control group.

Main Methods:

  • Participants completed phonemic and semantic VFTs before, during, and after exercise or a non-physical control activity.
  • VFT performance was analyzed based on word characteristics and topic switching.
  • Between-groups and within-group changes over time were examined.

Main Results:

  • Exercising participants demonstrated altered VFT performance over time, while controls did not.
  • Exercising participants produced words with fewer letters and lower frequency during and after exercise.
  • Increased topic switching was observed in the exercise group post-exercise.

Conclusions:

  • Acute cardiovascular exercise influences verbal fluency and lexical access.
  • Observed VFT changes in the exercise group were attributable to the physical activity, not practice effects.
  • Exercise modulates cognitive processes involved in word retrieval and organization.