Do not underestimate the cognitive benefits of exercise

Olivier Dupuy; Sebastian Ludyga; Francisco B. Ortega; Charles H. Hillman; Kirk I. Erickson; Fabian Herold; Keita Kamijo; Chun Hao Wang; Timothy P. Morris; Belinda Brown; Irene Esteban-Cornejo; Patricio Solis-Urra; Laurent Bosquet; Markus Gerber; Said Mekari; Nicolas Berryman; Louis Bherer; Ben Rattray; Teresa Liu-Ambrose; Claudia Voelcker-Rehage; Boris Cheval

doi:10.1038/s41562-024-01949-x

Do not underestimate the cognitive benefits of exercise

Olivier Dupuy, Sebastian Ludyga, Francisco B. Ortega, Charles H. Hillman, Kirk I. Erickson, Fabian Herold, Keita Kamijo, Chun Hao Wang, Timothy P. Morris, Belinda Brown, Irene Esteban-Cornejo, Patricio Solis-Urra, Laurent Bosquet, Markus Gerber, Said Mekari, Nicolas Berryman, Louis Bherer, Ben Rattray, Teresa Liu-Ambrose, Claudia Voelcker-RehageBoris Cheval

Research Institute for Sport and Exercise

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Abstract

Evidence suggests that physical exercise benefits cognition across the lifespan. Nevertheless, in an umbrella review of 24 meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials, Ciria et al. concluded that there is no support for a causal effect of physical exercise on cognitive performance in healthy populations.

As a group of international experts in the exercise–cognition field, we disagree with this conclusion due to methodological and theoretical limitations that have received little consideration. We believe the authors’ warning of caution for the World Health Organization’s recommendations2 regarding the cognitive benefits of exercise is unwarranted.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1460-1463
Number of pages	4
Journal	Nature Human Behaviour
Volume	8
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01949-x
Publication status	Published - Aug 2024

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Dupuy, O., Ludyga, S., Ortega, F. B., Hillman, C. H., Erickson, K. I., Herold, F., Kamijo, K., Wang, C. H., Morris, T. P., Brown, B., Esteban-Cornejo, I., Solis-Urra, P., Bosquet, L., Gerber, M., Mekari, S., Berryman, N., Bherer, L., Rattray, B., Liu-Ambrose, T., ... Cheval, B. (2024). Do not underestimate the cognitive benefits of exercise. Nature Human Behaviour, 8(8), 1460-1463. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01949-x

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