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Acute physical exercise can influence the accuracy of metacognitive judgments

Palmer, Matthew A.
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Stefanidis, Kayla
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Turner, Ashlee
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Tranent, Peter
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Breen, Rachel
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Kucina, Talira
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Brumby, Laura
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Holt, Glenys
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Fell, James
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Sauer, James
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University of Tasmania, University of the Sunshine Coast, University of Sydney, University of Chester
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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.
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Palmer, M. A., Stefanidis, K., Turner, A., Tranent, P. J., Breen, R., Kucina, T., Brumby, L., Holt, G. A., Fell, J. W., & Sauer, J. D. (2019). Acute physical exercise can influence the accuracy of metacognitive judgments. Scientific Reports, 9, 12412.
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Nature
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Scientific Reports
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http://hdl.handle.net/10034/622446
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10.1038/s41598-019-48861-3
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2045-2322
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