Exercise type relates to inhibitory and error processing functions in older adults |
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| Authors: | Dan Li Chung-Ju Huang Sin-Chi Liu Kung-Hung Chang |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School for Sports Humanities and Social Science, Jilin Sport University, Jilin, China;2. Graduate Institute of Sport Pedagogy, University of Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan;3. Department of Physical Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan;4. Office of Physical Education, Tamkang University, New Taipei City, Taiwan |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACTThis study investigated the association between exercise type and inhibition of prepotent responses and error detection. Totally, 75 adults (M = 68.88 years) were classified into one of three exercise groups: those who were regular participants in open- or closed-skill forms of exercise, and those who exercised only irregularly. The participants completed a Stroop and task-switching tasks with event-related brain potentials (ERPs) recorded. The results revealed that regular exercisers displayed faster reaction times (RTs) in the Stroop task compared with irregular exercisers. The open-skill exercisers exhibited smaller N200 and larger P300a amplitudes in the Stroop task compared with irregular exercisers. Furthermore, the open-skill exercisers showed a tendency of shorter error-related negativity latencies at the task-witching test. The findings suggest that older adults may gain extra cognitive benefits in areas such as inhibition functioning and error processing from participating in open-skill forms of physical exercises. |
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| Keywords: | Executive function aging physical activity error detection |
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