The possible positive effects of physical exercise on the global motion perception aging: the cognitive mechanism

Ziping Liang; Lei Zhang; Pengpeng Wang; Yuping Zhang; Yaoyuan Xia; Hua Jin

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1323291

Frontiers in Psychology (Jan 2024)

The possible positive effects of physical exercise on the global motion perception aging: the cognitive mechanism

Ziping Liang,
Lei Zhang,
Pengpeng Wang,
Yuping Zhang,
Yaoyuan Xia,
Hua Jin

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Ziping Liang: Mental Health Education Center, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
Lei Zhang: School of Physical Education (Main Campus), Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
Pengpeng Wang: College of Psychology, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi, China
Yuping Zhang: Medicine School of Rehabilitation, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
Yaoyuan Xia: Department of Physical Education, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Hua Jin: Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Social Science Laboratory of Students’ Mental Development and Learning, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1323291
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 15

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BackgroundSensitivity to global motion perception (GMP) decreases gradually with age, and the mechanism to effectively alleviate its aging process is still unclear. This study aimed to examine the impact and mechanism of exercise on GMP aging.MethodsThis study adopted the global motion direction discrimination task and used motion coherence thresholds to assess GMP sensitivity. It adopted the perceptual template model (PTM) to fit the GMP processing efficiency.ResultsThe threshold for the elderly group with no exercise was higher than that of the elderly group with exercise, while the threshold of the latter was higher than that of the youth group. The results of the model fitting showed that both models, Aa and Af, corresponding to the elderly group with exercise and the elderly group with no exercise, respectively, were the best-fitted models when compared with that of the youth group. Compared to the elderly group with no exercise, models Aa and Af, were the best-fitted models.ConclusionThese results showed that good exercise habits might have a certain degree of positive effect on GMP aging, by lower their internal additive noise (Aa), and improve the ability to eliminate external noise (Af).

Published in Frontiers in Psychology

ISSN: 1664-1078 (Online)
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Philosophy. Psychology. Religion: Psychology
Website: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology

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