The strength model of self-control revisited: Linking acute and chronic effects of exercise on executive functions

By M. Audiffren, N. André. 2015

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Since the 1960's, hundreds of articles have been published on the effects of exercise on cognition and more recently on executive functions. A large variety of effects have been observed: acute or long-lasting, facilitating or debilitating. Several theoretical frameworks have been proposed to explain these effects with plausible mechanisms. However, as yet none of these models has succeeded in unifying all the observations in a single framework that subsumes all effects. The aim of the present review is to revisit the strength model of self-control initiated by Baumeister and his colleagues in the 1990's in order to extend its assumptions to exercise psychology. This model provides a heuristic framework that can explain and predict the effects of acute and chronic exercise on effortful tasks tapping self-regulation or executive functions. A reconsideration of exercise as a self-control task results from this perspective. A new avenue for future research is delineated besides more traditional approaches.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Positive personality-trait-like individual differences in athletes from individual- and team sports and in non-athletes (2016, unknown): “Moreover, an added benefit of chronic physical activity is that it has a positive effect on brain and cognition (Audiffren & Andr!e, 2015; Hillman, Erickson, & Kramer, 2008).”
Conclusions about Interventions, Programs, and Approaches for Improving Executive Functions that appear Justified and those that, despite much hype, do not (2015, background): “Reviews of physical activity programs that examined benefits for EFs include: Angevaren et al. (2008), Audiffren and André (2015), Barenberg et al. (2011), Best (2010), Chaddock et al. (2011), Etnier et al. (2006), Etnier et al. (1997), Fedewa and Ahn (2011), Hillman et al. (2008), Hindin and…”
Variability of practice as an interface between motor and cognitive development (2016, background): “Audiffren and André (2015) suggest that by adding the control of effort during physical exercise to the domains of self-regulation, the strength model of self-control offers a suitable framework for explaining and predicting exercise effects on cognition and particularly on executive function.”