Blending transcranial direct current stimulations and physical exercise to maximize cognitive improvement

Frontiers in Psychology

David Moreau¹ 

关键词: cognitive training;    cognitive enhancement;    physical exercise;    sports training;    tDCS;    transcranial stimulation;    neuroplasticity;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00678

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Can you make yourself smarter? For over a century, cognitive enhancement has been an elusive endeavor in cognitive psychology. Training on a particular task meant specific, hardly-transferable, improvements (e.g., Ericsson et al., 1993). Recent findings, however, provide reasons to believe that some interventions can induce more general gains. For example, training programs based on physical exercise have shown remarkable benefits (Hillman et al., 2008), in line with recommendations for ecological interventions (Moreau and Conway, 2014). Other non-invasive interventions also appear to be promising—not only to experimental purposes, but also in terms of direct applications to clinical and non-clinical populations (e.g., mindfulness/meditation techniques, interactions with natural environments, cognitive training, brain stimulations). In particular, research based on transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) has shown encouraging findings. Here, we address the promise of combining propitious interventions such as tDCS and physical exercise to maximize cognitive improvement.

【 授权许可】

CC BY