Documentary, walking or jogging promotes learning and memory formation

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Documentary, walking or jogging promotes learning and memory formation

Postby DaveAgain » Tue Jun 21, 2022 4:33 pm

A documentary about the benefits of walking mentions that it promotes learning and memory formation, 27m50s into the video (French | German).
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Re: Documentary, walking or jogging promotes learning and memory formation

Postby SpanishInput » Tue Jun 21, 2022 10:16 pm

So professor Arguelles was right when he was walking while using the shadowing technique...
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Re: Documentary, walking or jogging promotes learning and memory formation

Postby einzelne » Wed Jun 22, 2022 2:55 am

So that's why I started to forget all my languages when I stretched my knee and had to put my running on pause!
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Re: Documentary, walking or jogging promotes learning and memory formation

Postby tungemål » Wed Jun 22, 2022 10:10 am

That's definitely a fact.
Walking or jogging has all kinds of beneficial effects on the brain. The video is geoblocked, however. Are you able to watch it?
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Re: Documentary, walking or jogging promotes learning and memory formation

Postby DaveAgain » Wed Jun 22, 2022 10:37 am

tungemål wrote: The video is geoblocked, however. Are you able to watch it?
I can watch it from the UK. If your TV set has Arte's catch-up application that might be another option, and it might show up on Arte's YouTube channel at some point.

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ARDmediaThek.de has the German language version too, but I can't watch that. Perhaps you can? (Title: Gehen - Wundermittel für Körper und Seele)
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Re: Documentary, walking or jogging promotes learning and memory formation

Postby zenmonkey » Wed Jun 22, 2022 1:31 pm

One of the research articles is here. https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1805668115

The exercise was done before the study phase.
The study was a visual recall, based on a test of "is this item seen before or is it new".
16 participants were better able to detect differences in objects - resulting in some, minor, short-term recall improvements.

Promotes learning may be a stretch...
Any type of exercise (at 30% of 02 SAT) is postulated to give this (once again, minor) result.
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