The Effect of Aerobic Exercise Training on Memory: Can Increasing Aerobic Exercise Improve Long-term Memory in Healthy Young Adults?

Introduction We all learn in Biology 12 that physical activity increases our cardiovascular fitness that increases cerebral oxygen consumption via blood vessels. Moss and Scholey (1996) demonstrated improvements in memory with increase in level of oxygen supply to the brain before learning by oxygen administration. One suggested mechanism was increase in cardiovascular fitness could improve our cognitive function. Hill, Storandt, and Malley (1993) reported some studies which examined the effect of short-term exercise of two to four months …

…improving young adults' fitness and studies as a result of increase in long-term memory. Many ways of improving memory has been searched nowadays as memory is very important in addition to intelligence and emotional quotient to any performance for e.g. giving a speech or speeding up the decision making of a doctor to give the best treatment. If the hypothesis is supported, exercise is the healthiest way to improve long-term memory without side effects.