The Impact of Aerobic Exercise on the Sad Emotion Inhibition in Young Women: an EEG Study  

Oleh:

Hwang, Ren-Jen ; Guo, Zhan-Xian ; Ni, L- F ; Shih, Yu-Ling ; Lee, Yu-Sheun ; Lin, En-Zi

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The International Symposium on Social Sciences (TISSS) and Hong Kong International Conference on Education, Psychology and Society (HKICEPS) at Hongkong, December 2013, page 907-911.
Topik: Exercise; Sad Emotion; Electroencephalography (EEG); Brain; Go/NoGo
Fulltext: Hong Kong-Conference 147.pdf (394.4KB)

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Extensive research on humans suggests that aerobic exercise is associated with improving neurocognitive performance, overall physical and psychological health. The present study investigated the effects of aerobic exercise-related brain activity on sad emotion inhibition processing in 13 healthy women by using 10-20 system electroencephalography (EEG). Facial emotional Go/NoGo tests were conducted to examine the variation of frontal inhibition responses for Sad NoGo versus Neutral NoGo trials across 20-min aerobic fitness training sessions. The first test was performed before aerobic exercise (baseline; first), and the second experiment was performed during absolute rest 30 minutes after the end of exercise training. The event-related potential (ERP) component N200 (N2) over the anterior frontal region was analyzed because it often reflects executive cognitive control functions. The main results were that sad NoGo trials evoked higher N200 amplitude from the FP2 scalp at the baseline (first) than at the second measurement (P < 0.05). Conversely, the behavioral accuracy of the sad NoGo trials was found significantly increase in after exercise (second) (P < 0.05). There were no differences in behavioral accuracy rates and N2 amplitudes during neutral conditions throughout the training. Healthy women who exhibited improving behavior inhibition to sadness cues after exercise, however, also presented a reduced engagement of right frontal activation. Exercise has been shown to benefit brain function for several decades. The current EEG study provides the first evidence that aerobic exercises play a critical role in regulating the neural basis of sad emotion inhibition processing in healthy women.

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