The effect of orienteering exercises on the spatial orienteering ability for college students:Evidence from the behavioral science and fNIRS
To investigate the impact of orienteering exercise on college students'spatial orientation ability and its brain mechanism,so as to provide new approaches and scientific evidence for enhancing human spatial cognitive ability.A total of 48 freshmen were recruited and randomly divided into an experimental group and a control group.The experimental group underwent an 8-week orienteering exercise intervention,and the functional near-infrared spectroscopy(fNIRS)system was used to record changes in the concentration of oxyhemoglobin(Oxy-Hb)in the subjects'brains,and the behavioral performance and neural mechanisms of spatial orientation cognitive tasks for subjects before and after the intervention were analyzed.Results showed that(1)orienteering exercise significantly improved the accuracy of spatial orientation cognitive tasks in the participants,and also significantly outperforming the control group.(2)During spatial orientation tasks,the Oxy-Hb activation in the left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex(L-VLPFC)and left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex(L-DLPFC)for the experimental group was significantly reduced,and lower than that of the control group.(3)The Oxy-Hb concentration in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex(VLPFC)for the experimental group was significantly correlated with accuracy.The conclusion suggests that orienteering exercise can effectively improve the spatial orientation cognitive ability of participants,and the benefit of improved spatial orientation ability is related to the activation level of the prefrontal cortex.The brain mechanism underlying the improvement of spatial orientation ability through orienteering exercise may involve changes in the spatial cognitive processing patterns of participants,and thereby promoting the optimization of brain neural activity.
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