March 6, 2020Frontiers in PsychologyOpen Access

Enhancing Executive Control: Attention to Balance, Breath, and the Speed Versus Accuracy Tradeoff

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Why the study?

Malleability of executive control and its enhancement through yoga training is unclear.

Does 8 weeks of yoga training improve executive control in young adults?

Population

Young adults (Study 1 yoga group n = 27, Study 2 control group n = 27)

Comparison

Yoga training vs gender-matched control

Follow-up

8 weeks

Authors

VSVarsha SinghDev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya VMVaishali Mutreja

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Implication

Pre-post yoga may link to executive gains; leaves open causality and generalizability pending RCTs.

Structured PICO

Does 8 weeks of yoga training improve executive control in young adults?

Population

54 young adults (yoga group n=27, mean age 23.27 years; gender-matched control group n=27, mean age 23.33 years)

Intervention

8 weeks of yoga training focusing on attention to postural control (asanas) and respiratory control (pranayama), 30 min each biweekly

Comparator

Gender-matched control group without yoga training

Outcome

Executive control performance (working memory, cognitive flexibility, and inhibition)surrogate

Attention to motor and respiratory control during yoga may enhance specific components of executive control in young adults by altering the speed-accuracy tradeoff.

Cite This Study

Singh et al. (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a767f1153fd60d5b195cdc4 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00180

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