School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2022 Jun;75(6):1056-1066. doi: 10.1177/17470218211054950. Epub 2021 Nov 9.
Research suggests that aerobic exercise (i.e., exercise aiming to improve cardiovascular fitness) promotes cognition, but the impact on memory specifically, is unclear. There is some evidence to suggest that as little as one session of post-learning exercise benefits memory consolidation. Furthermore, memory may be particularly facilitated by exercise when the individual is emotionally aroused while encoding stimuli. The current study tested whether exercise after exposure to neutral and emotional images improved memory consolidation of the items among university students. Ninety-nine students were randomly instructed to either exercise or not exercise after viewing a set of images that were positive, neutral, and negative in valence, and they were later tested on their memory. Although emotional images were remembered better than non-emotional images, the results suggested that exercise did not influence this effect or enhance consolidation of the items overall. Explanations and implications for these findings are discussed.
研究表明，有氧运动（即旨在改善心血管健康的运动）可以促进认知，但具体对记忆的影响尚不清楚。有一些证据表明，学习后进行一次运动就有益于记忆的巩固。此外，当个体在编码刺激时情绪激动时，运动可能特别有助于记忆。本研究测试了在观看一组积极、中性和消极的图片后，运动是否能改善大学生对这些项目的记忆巩固。99 名学生被随机指示在观看一组图片后进行或不进行运动，这些图片在效价上是积极的、中性的和消极的，之后他们接受了记忆测试。尽管情绪图片比非情绪图片记忆得更好，但结果表明运动并没有影响这种效果，也没有增强整体项目的巩固。对这些发现的解释和意义进行了讨论。
