Makwana Bindal, Xu Xiaomeng Mona
Department of Psychology, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, USA.
Appl Neuropsychol Adult. 2020 Nov-Dec;27(6):490-496. doi: 10.1080/23279095.2019.1570927. Epub 2019 Feb 22.
Physical activity (PA) has been shown to enhance physical health, mental health, and cognitive functioning. Adult and older adult research shows that PA positively influences neuropsychological performance and protects against cognitive decline. This study investigated neuropsychological performance in uninjured athletes and nonathletes using an iPad-based neuropsychological battery called C3Logix. Since literature suggests that PA enhances cognitive functioning, athletes may perform better on neurocognitive measures than nonathletes due to athletes' assumed higher level of PA. We hypothesized that collegiate athletes would outperform nonathletes on all cognitive tasks. Ninety-five athletes and 92 nonathletes completed the neurocognitive assessments and results showed that athletes outperformed nonathletes on reaction time tasks, but not in other cognitive domains. The implications of this study included extending the work of previous research using C3Logix and added to our understanding of a possible difference in reaction time between healthy collegiate athletes and nonathletes.
体育活动（PA）已被证明能增强身体健康、心理健康和认知功能。针对成年人和老年人的研究表明，体育活动对神经心理表现有积极影响，并能预防认知能力下降。本研究使用一款名为C3Logix的基于iPad的神经心理测试组合，调查了未受伤的运动员和非运动员的神经心理表现。由于文献表明体育活动能增强认知功能，鉴于运动员假定的较高体育活动水平，他们在神经认知测试中的表现可能优于非运动员。我们假设大学生运动员在所有认知任务上的表现都将超过非运动员。95名运动员和92名非运动员完成了神经认知评估，结果显示运动员在反应时间任务上的表现优于非运动员，但在其他认知领域并非如此。这项研究的意义包括扩展了此前使用C3Logix的研究工作，并增进了我们对健康大学生运动员和非运动员之间反应时间可能存在差异的理解。
