Conversely, prolonged sedentary time was linked to poorer working memory the following day. These findings highlight the importance of daily physical activity and quality sleep for maintaining ...
Improvement to cognitive performance caused by exercise could last for 24 hours, a new study shows. Scientists also linked getting 6 or more hours of sleep to better memory test scores the next day.
We found that the more time a participant spent doing moderate to vigorous physical activity, the better their episodic and working memory scores were the following day. Getting more sleep ...
They found that athletes overall had a small, but statistically significant advantage in working memory over non-athletes across different levels of activity and sports. This difference was even ...