The Order Effect of Acute Concurrent Exercise on Executive Function: An Event-Related Potential Study

NCT05314699 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: PACNL_rueihongli_CE_Order
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 99
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Executive function is a high-level cognition which plays an important role in our life. Meta-analysis study has demonstrated that acute exercise could improve executive function. However, it is still unclear whether executive function can be enhanced by the concurrent exercise that combines aerobic and resistance exercise. Moreover, the sequence of concurrent exercise may result in different blood lactate concentration which may affect executive function. Therefore, the purposes of present study are: (1) Measuring the order effect of acute concurrent exercise on executive function. (2) Measuring whether order effect of acute concurrent exercise on executive function is mediated by blood lactate.

Conditions

Executive Function

Keywords

acute exercise; concurrent exercise; inhibition; cognitive flexibility

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Stroop test

  The Stroop task consists of neutral, congruent, and incongruent trials. In neutral trials, colored rectangles were presented and participants were instructed to respond to whether the squares were red, blue, or green. For congruent and incongruent trials, participants were presented with the names of the three Chinese color words of 紅 (red), 藍 (blue), or 綠 (green) printed in either the same (congruent) or different (incongruent) ink color and instructed to respond to the color of the ink while inhibiting the meaning of the word.

  30 minutes

• task switch test

  The shifting aspect of executive function was assessed by means of a computer version of the task-switching test. In brief, each participant was presented with six blocks of 64 trials. For the first block, the participant was required to identify whether the stimulus (i.e., digits 1-9, without digit 5) within the solid-line square was greater/less than the digit 5. For the second block, the participant identified whether the stimulus within the dotted-line square was even/odd. The blocks 3-6 consisted of an equal number of stimuli from the first and second blocks forming an alternating-runs paradigm.

  30 minutes

Other Outcomes (1)

• blood lactate

  1 minutes

Study Arms (3)

resistance-aerobic exercise group, RA

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants conduct 5-min warm up, 13-min resistance exercise, 12-min aerobic exercise, and 5-min cool down.

Behavioral: resistance-aerobic exercise, RA

aerobic-resistance exercise group, AR

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants conduct 5-min warm up, 12-min aerobic exercise, 13-min resistance exercise, and 5-min cool down.

Behavioral: aerobic-resistance exercise, AR

reading control group, RC

NO INTERVENTION

Participants conduct reading for 35 minutes.

Interventions

resistance-aerobic exercise, RA BEHAVIORAL

Participants conduct 5-min warm up, 13-min resistance exercise, 12-min aerobic exercise, and 5-min cool down.

resistance-aerobic exercise group, RA

aerobic-resistance exercise, AR BEHAVIORAL

Participants conduct warm up for 5-min, aerobic exercise for 12-min, resistance exercise for 13-min, and 5-min cold down.

aerobic-resistance exercise group, AR

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 21 Years - 28 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• no history of psychiatric or neurological disorders
• no history of cardiovascular disease
• normal or corrected to normal vision and normal color perception
• right handed
• \< BMI \< 27

You may not qualify if:

• \. Diagnosed with epilepsy

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Taiwan Normal University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University

Taipei, 106, Taiwan

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Inhibition, Psychological

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Officials

• Yu-Kai Chang, Ph.D.

  Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor

Model Details: Participants were randomly assigned to three group, namely the resistance-aerobic exercise group (RA), the aerobic-resistance exercise group (AR), and the reading control group (RC). Participants in RA groups were asked to finish 5 min warm-up, 13 min resistance exercise, 12 min aerobic exercise, and 5 min cool down. Participants in AR groups were asked to finish 5 min warm-up, 12 min aerobic exercise, 13 min resistance exercise, and 5 min cool down. Participants in RC group were required to finish 35 min reading. All groups took a 30 min cognitive test before and after the intervention.The blood lactate were collected before, 17 minutes after, and after the intervention.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 29, 2022
• First Posted: April 6, 2022
• Study Start: June 15, 2021
• Primary Completion: November 29, 2021
• Study Completion: February 15, 2022
• Last Updated: April 6, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TW (1)