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| Practice of aerobic sports is associated with better spatial memory in adults and older men | | Author(s) | Ruben Sanchez-Horcajo, Juan Llamas-Alonso, Jose Manuel Cimadevilla |
| Journal title | Experimental Aging Research, vol 41, no 2, March-April 2015 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, March-April 2015 |
| Pages | pp 193-203 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Older men ; Sport ; Keeping fit ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Cognitive processes ; Correlation ; Spain. |
| Annotation | Cognitive abilities experience diverse age-related changes, and memory complaints are common in ageing. The practice of sports is known to benefit brain functioning, improving memory among other abilities. Introduction of virtual reality tasks makes it possible to easily assess cognitive functions such as spatial memory, a hippocampus-dependent cognitive ability. In this study, the authors applied a virtual reality-based task to study spatial reference memory in two groups of men, 28 sportsmen and 28 sedentary, across three different age groups: 50-59, 60-69, and 70-77 years. The data showed that sportsmen outperformed sedentary participants. In addition, there was also a significant effect of the factor age. Hence, older men (70-77 years old) displayed a poorer performance in comparison with the other age groups. These results support the beneficial effect of habitual physical activity on spatial memory. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150529280 A |
| Classmark | BC: HT: CE: DB: DA: 49: 76S |
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