The impact of acute exercise on implicit cognitive reappraisal in association with left dorsolateral prefronta activation: A fNIRS study

Despite findings showing that acute exercise may help enhance emotion regulation, the neurophysiological mechanisms of these effects remain poorly understood. In this study, we examined whether acute exercise influences cognitive emotion regulation, and, in particular, an implicit cognitive reapprai...

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Published in:Behavioural brain research 2021-05, Vol.406, p.113233-113233, Article 113233
Main Authors: Zhang, Yifan, Shi, Wenxia, Wang, Hao, Liu, Mengrui, Tang, Donghui
Format: Article
Language:English
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Acute exercise
Adult
Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex - diagnostic imaging
Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex - physiology
Emotion regulation
Emotional Regulation - physiology
Exercise - physiology
Female
Functional Neuroimaging
Humans
Implicit cognitive reappraisal
Left dlPFC
Left OFC
NIRS
Sedentary Behavior
Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared
Young Adult
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Summary:Despite findings showing that acute exercise may help enhance emotion regulation, the neurophysiological mechanisms of these effects remain poorly understood. In this study, we examined whether acute exercise influences cognitive emotion regulation, and, in particular, an implicit cognitive reappraisal. Twenty sedentary young women were randomly assigned to either a control group (n = 10) or an exercise group (n = 10). Participants underwent an implicit cognitive reappraisal task twice, before and after the 30-min acute exercise or control, alongside functional near-infrared spectroscopy recordings (NIRS). The left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) and left orbital frontal cortex (OFC) were activated during implicit cognitive reappraisal at baseline, but only the left dlPFC activation was linked with behavioral performance. Acute exercise enhanced the activation of these regions, reflective of the partial neural bases of implicit cognitive reappraisal, in the left dlPFC and left OFC, but did not alter the behavioral performance. Results also showed that acute exercise moderated the positive effect of left dlPFC activation on implicit cognitive reappraisal performance; specifically, this effect was stronger in the exercise group. In conclusion, the enhanced activation of the left dlPFC by acute exercise and the increased link between behavioral performance and its neural indices may point to acute exercise as a promoter of implicit cognitive reappraisal.
ISSN:0166-4328
1872-7549
DOI:10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113233