Acute moderate exercise elicits increased dorsolateral prefrontal activation and improves cognitive performance with Stroop test

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The Effects of Acute Exercise on Mood, Cognition, Neurophysiology, and Neurochemical Pathways: A Review (2016, background): “As predicted, compared to young adults [100], the older population demonstrated the HAROLD effect, with increased activation reported bilaterally in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, and frontal polar area during Stroop interference trials [103].”
Positive effect of acute mild exercise on executive function via arousal-related prefrontal activations: An fNIRS study (2014, methodology): “The color-word matching Stroop task (Hyodo et al., 2012; Schroeter et al., 2002, 2003; Yanagisawa et al., 2010) was adopted in an eventrelated design.”
A primer on investigating the after effects of acute bouts of physical activity on cognition (2019, methodology): “Specifically, investigations utilizing functional near-infrared spectroscopy in response to the Stroop task have observed greater cortical activation following physical activity in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (effect sizes ranging from 1.2 to 1.3; Byun et al., 2014; Yanagisawa et al., 20”