Journal article
Acute physical exercise can influence the accuracy of metacognitive judgments
Scientific Reports, Vol.9, 12412
2019
Abstract
Acute exercise generally benefits memory but little research has examined how exercise affects metacognition (knowledge of memory performance). We show that a single bout of exercise can influence metacognition in paired-associate learning. Participants completed 30- min of moderate-intensity exercise before or after studying a series of word pairs (cloudivory), and completed cued-recall (cloud-?; Experiments 1 & 2) and recognition memory tests (cloud-? spoon; ivory; drill; choir; Experiment 2). Participants made judgments of learning prior to cued-recall tests (JOLs; predicted likelihood of recalling the second word of each pair when shown the first) and feeling-of-knowing judgments prior to recognition tests (FOK; predicted likelihood of recognizing the second word from four alternatives). Compared to noexercise control conditions, exercise before encoding enhanced cued-recall in Experiment 1 but not Experiment 2 and did not affect recognition. Exercise after encoding did not influence memory. In conditions where exercise did not benefit memory, it increased JOLs and FOK judgments relative to accuracy (Experiments 1 & 2) and impaired the relative accuracy of JOLs (ability to distinguish remembered from non-remembered items; Experiment 2). Acute exercise seems to signal likely remembering; this has implications for understanding the effects of exercise on metacognition, and for incorporating exercise into study routines.
Details
- Title
- Acute physical exercise can influence the accuracy of metacognitive judgments
- Authors
- Matthew Palmer (Author) - University of TasmaniaKayla B Stefanidis (Author) - University of the Sunshine CoastAshlee Turner (Author) - University of TasmaniaPeter Tranent (Author) - University of TasmaniaRachel Breen (Author) - University of TasmaniaTalira Kucina (Author) - University of TasmaniaLaura Brumby (Author) - University of TasmaniaGlenys Holt (Author) - University of TasmaniaJames Fell (Author) - University of TasmaniaJames Sauer (Author) - University of Tasmania
- Publication details
- Scientific Reports, Vol.9, 12412
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Date published
- 2019
- DOI
- 10.1038/s41598-019-48861-3
- ISSN
- 2045-2322
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2019 The Author(s). Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Te images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Organisation Unit
- Road Safety Research Collaboration; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Thompson Institute; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451217402621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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- Psychology, Experimental