Effect of Acute Moderate-Intensity Exercise on the Mirror Neuron System: Role of Cardiovascular Fitness Level.

action understanding acute moderate-intensity exercise cardiovascular fitness level fNIRS mirror neuron system social cognition

Journal

Frontiers in psychology
ISSN: 1664-1078
Titre abrégé: Front Psychol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101550902

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2020
Historique:
received: 13 11 2019
accepted: 10 02 2020
entrez: 11 3 2020
pubmed: 11 3 2020
medline: 11 3 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The aims of this study were to use functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to determine whether cardiovascular fitness levels modulate the activation of the mirror neuron system (MNS) under table-setting tasks in non-exercise situation, to replicate the study that positive effect of acute moderate-intensity exercise on the MNS and investigate whether cardiovascular fitness levels modulates the effect of exercise on the activation of the MNS. Thirty-six healthy college-aged participants completed a maximal graded exercise test (GXT) and were categorized as high, moderate, or low cardiovascular fitness. Participants then performed table-setting tasks including an action execution task (EXEC) and action observation task (OBS) prior to (PRE) and after (POST) either a rest condition (CTRL) or a cycling exercise condition (EXP). The EXP condition consisted of a 5-min warm-up, 15-min moderate-intensity exercise (65% VO No significant differences were observed for Oxy-Hb and Deoxy-Hb between different cardiovascular fitness levels in the EXEC or OBS tasks in the non-exercise session. But there were significant improvements of oxygenated hemoglobin (Oxy-Hb) in the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and pre-motor area (PMC) regions under the OBS task following the acute moderate exercise. Particularly, the improvements (Post-Pre) of Δ Oxy-Hb were mainly observed in high and low fitness individuals. There was also a significant improvement of deoxygenated hemoglobin (Deoxy-Hb) in the IPL region under the OBS task. The following analysis indicated that exercise improved Δ Deoxy-Hb in high fitness individuals. This study indicated that the activation of MNS was not modulated by the cardiovascular fitness levels in the non-exercise situation. We replicated the previous study that moderate exercise improved activation of MNS; we also provided the first empirical evidence that moderate-intensity exercise positively affects the MNS activation in college students of high and low cardiovascular fitness levels.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32153482
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00312
pmc: PMC7047835
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

312

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2020 Xu, Wang, Li, Hu and Xiang.

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Auteurs

Zebo Xu (Z)

Department of Sports and Health, Guangzhou Sport University, Guangzhou, China.
Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Zi-Rong Wang (ZR)

Department of Graduation, Guangzhou Sport University, Guangzhou, China.

Jin Li (J)

Department of Graduation, Guangzhou Sport University, Guangzhou, China.

Min Hu (M)

Department of Sports and Health, Guangzhou Sport University, Guangzhou, China.

Ming-Qiang Xiang (MQ)

Department of Sports and Health, Guangzhou Sport University, Guangzhou, China.

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