Dynamic Associations of Change in Physical Activity and Change in Cognitive Function: Coordinated Analyses of Four Longitudinal Studies

The present study used a coordinated analyses approach to examine the association of physical activity and cognitive change in four longitudinal studies. A series of multilevel growth models with physical activity included both as a fixed (between-person) and time-varying (within-person) predictor of four domains of cognitive function (reasoning, memory, fluency, and semantic knowledge) was used. Baseline physical activity predicted fluency, reasoning and memory in two studies. However, there was a consistent pattern of positive relationships between time-specific changes in physical activity and time-specific changes in cognition, controlling for expected linear trajectories over time, across all four studies. This pattern was most evident for the domains of reasoning and fluency.

• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Journal of Aging Research

• Publication date

  2012-09-16

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1155/2012/493598PMID 23029615PMCID 3457643
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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