Acute effects of aerobic exercise on cognitive performance: an investigation of exercise duration and possible dose-response relations.
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Cognitive performanceArousal
- Registration Number
- DRKS00021192
- Lead Sponsor
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Institut für Sportwissenschaften Arbeitsbereich Sportmedizin und Leistungsphysiologie
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 19
Inclusion Criteria
Person has to be healthy, has to have legal capacity, has to be able to understand the kind, extent, significance, and the consequences of the intervention.
Exclusion Criteria
Persons are excluded if they made use of perception-altering substances. Furthermore persons were excluded if they had acute injuries or severe diseases like: cardiovascular, pulmonary or renal dysfunctions, neurological or psychological diseases, advanced degenerative musculoskeletal diseases as well as a non healed up sports injuries.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pre to post differences of cognitive performance; Measurements via CogState Test Battery: changes in executive functions via Groton Maze Learning Test; changes in attention performance via Detection Test and Identification Test, changes in working memory performance via One Card Learning Test and One Back Test; measurements were taken before and immediately after exercise cessation.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pre to post differences of arousal, immediately after exercise cessation; Attention was measured using a visual analogue scale (not - very); Arousal was measured using the 6-point Felt Arousal Scale (barely - very).