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Treadmill walking during vocabulary encoding improves verbal long-term memory

Overview of attention for article published in Behavioral and Brain Functions, July 2014
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Title
Treadmill walking during vocabulary encoding improves verbal long-term memory
Published in
Behavioral and Brain Functions, July 2014
DOI 10.1186/1744-9081-10-24
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Maren Schmidt-Kassow, Nadine Zink, Julia Mock, Christian Thiel, Lutz Vogt, Cornelius Abel, Jochen Kaiser

Abstract

Moderate physical activity improves various cognitive functions, particularly when it is applied simultaneously to the cognitive task. In two psychoneuroendocrinological within-subject experiments, we investigated whether very low-intensity motor activity, i.e. walking, during foreign-language vocabulary encoding improves subsequent recall compared to encoding during physical rest. Furthermore, we examined the kinetics of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in serum and salivary cortisol. Previous research has associated both substances with memory performance.In both experiments, subjects performed better when they were motorically active during encoding compared to being sedentary. BDNF in serum was unrelated to memory performance. In contrast we found a positive correlation between salivary cortisol concentration and the number of correctly recalled items. In summary, even very light physical activity during encoding is beneficial for subsequent recall.

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Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 27 18%
Student > Bachelor 25 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 10%
Researcher 12 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 6%
Other 22 15%
Unknown 38 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 39 26%
Medicine and Dentistry 20 14%
Sports and Recreations 16 11%
Social Sciences 7 5%
Neuroscience 6 4%
Other 23 16%
Unknown 37 25%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 303. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 January 2023.
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#114,499
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#4
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#883
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Outputs of similar age from Behavioral and Brain Functions
#2
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