Acute Effects of Different Types of Moderate-intensity Aerobic Exercise on Executive Functions in Adolescents

Key Points

• The study aims to explore the short-term effects of different types of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise on executive functions in adolescents.
• Compared coordination exercise (aerobics) with endurance exercise (jogging) on executive functions.
• Involved 76 middle school students as subjects.
• Measured inhibition using Flanker task and cognitive flexibility using More-Odd Shifting task.
• Aerobics group showed significant reduction in Flanker task response times post-intervention.
• The aerobics group also had significantly lower switch costs in the More-Odd Shifting task.
• No significant cognitive improvements observed in the jogging group, with some metrics worse than the control group.