Effect of physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness on attentional variables Luque, A.1,2, Zabala, M.1, Morales, E.1 & Sanabria, D.2 1 Department
of Physical Education and Sport. University of Granada 2 Department of Experimental Psychology. University of Granada
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Background
Results Athletes
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Can our lifestyle influence our cognitive performance?
The effect of training seems to be robust, but may selectively benefit cognitive performance (Colcombe & Kramer, 2003) The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between physical fitness and cognitive performance in three different tasks: the psychomotor vigilance task (PVT), a temporal orienting task (TO) and a duration discrimination task (DD).
Valid
Invalid
280 RT (ms)
The TO, DD and PVT tasks where performed at rest in a counterbalanced order.
Fixation: 500 ms
Duration: 10 min.
Fixation: 500 ms
260 250 240 230
Duration: 10-14 min.
220 210 SOA 1400
Athletes
350 ms
SOA 400
SOA 1400
Sedentaries
Validity x SOA: F(1, 26)= 52,586, p.17)
Fixation: 500 ms 350: 368; 403; 438, 525 ms
1 0,5 Rest
Post-exercise
Main Effect of session: F(1, 26)= 13,615, p
