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L’activité physique améliorerait la performance aux jeux vidéo

Voilà un argument de taille pour les parents qui cherchent comment faire bouger des jeunes rivés à leur ordinateur ou à leur console : pratiquer 15 minutes d’activité physique intense avant de jouer à un jeu vidéo semble ensuite améliorer la performance pendant le jeu. -La Presse

Exercising your right to a better brain

While it might be difficult to consciously visualize how to balance on a bike or catch a ball, a recent study at McGill sheds light on the role of exercise in motor memory, or learning how to perform a skill instinctively. Individuals normally pick up motor memory through repetition, but exercise can reportedly speed up this process, with possible implications for future physical therapy regimens. —McGill Tribune

S’entraîner favoriserait la consolidation de la mémoire motrice

Faire de l’exercice cardiovasculaire intense juste après une activité manuelle aiderait le cerveau à mémoriser la tâche effectuée. Cette découverte pourrait améliorer les méthodes de réhabilitation pour les personnes qui doivent récupérer des capacités motrices, après un AVC, par exemple. Un texte de Gabriel Laurin — Radio Canada

Scientists are discovering new connections between learning, exercise and sleep.

A new study suggests that when learning a new task, people improve the long-term retention of those skills when they exercise intensely for as little as 15 minutes immediately afterward—provided this is followed by a good night’s sleep. The study was published in March in the medical journal NeuroImage. —Wall Street Journal

15 Minutes of exercise can make a new skill stick

As little as a single 15-minute bout of cardiovascular exercise increases brain connectivity and efficiency, according to new research. If you want to learn to walk a tightrope, for example, it’s a good idea to go for a short run after each practice session, the research suggests. The recent study, which appears in NeuroImage, shows that exercise performed immediately after practicing a new motor skill improves its long-term retention. —Futurity.org

How exercise can help you master new skills

Can you improve your body’s ability to remember by making it move? That rather odd-seeming question stimulated researchers at the University of Copenhagen to undertake a reverberant new examination of just how the body creates specific muscle memories and what role, if any, exercise plays in the process. —New York Times

15-minutes of exercise creates optimal brain state for mastering new motor skills

A recent study demonstrates that exercise performed immediately after practicing a new motor skill improves its long-term retention. More specifically, the research shows, for the first time, that as little as a single fifteen-minute bout of cardiovascular exercise increases brain connectivity and efficiency. It’s a discovery that could, in principle, accelerate recovery of motor skills in patients who have suffered a stroke or who face mobility problems following an injury. —ScienceDaily