School of Physical Education, Minnan Normal University, Zhangzhou 363000, Fujian, China.
Department of Athletics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106319, Taiwan.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Mar 25;18(7):3429. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18073429.
Obesity and cardiorespiratory fitness exhibit negative and positive impacts, respectively, on executive function. Nevertheless, the combined effects of these two factors on executive function remain unclear. This study investigated the combined effects of obesity and cardiorespiratory fitness on response inhibition of executive function from both behavioral and neuroelectric perspectives. Ninety-six young adults aged between 18 and 25 years were recruited and assigned into four groups: the high cardiorespiratory fitness with normal weight (NH), high cardiorespiratory fitness with obesity (OH), low cardiorespiratory fitness with normal weight (NL), and low cardiorespiratory fitness with obesity (OL) groups. The stop-signal task and its induced P3 component of event-related potentials was utilized to index response inhibition. The participants with higher cardiorespiratory fitness (i.e., the NH and OH groups) demonstrated better behavioral performance (i.e., shorter response times and higher accuracy levels), as well as shorter stop-signal response times and larger P3 amplitudes than their counterparts with low cardiorespiratory fitness (i.e., the NL and OL groups). The study provides first-hand evidence of the substantial effects of cardiorespiratory fitness on the response inhibition, including evidence that the detrimental effects of obesity might be overcome by high cardiorespiratory fitness.
肥胖和心肺功能适应性分别对执行功能产生负面影响和积极影响。然而,这两个因素对执行功能的综合影响仍不清楚。本研究从行为和神经电生理的角度探讨了肥胖和心肺功能适应性对执行功能的反应抑制的综合影响。招募了 96 名年龄在 18 至 25 岁之间的年轻人,并将他们分为四组:高心肺功能适应性和正常体重组(NH)、高心肺功能适应性和肥胖组(OH)、低心肺功能适应性和正常体重组(NL)和低心肺功能适应性和肥胖组(OL)。使用停止信号任务及其诱发的事件相关电位 P3 成分来评估反应抑制。心肺功能适应性较高的参与者(即 NH 和 OH 组)表现出更好的行为表现(即更短的反应时间和更高的准确性水平),以及更短的停止信号反应时间和更大的 P3 振幅,而心肺功能适应性较低的参与者(即 NL 和 OL 组)则表现出更差的行为表现。该研究提供了心肺功能适应性对反应抑制的实质性影响的第一手证据,包括肥胖的有害影响可能被高心肺功能适应性所克服的证据。