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The research team recruited a group of 15 young and healthy men to take a memory test under three different conditions - after 30 minutes of moderate cycling, after 15 minutes of intensive cycling, or after a period of rest - and they found that performance was better after the intensive stint.
The team also found that the faster the participants were exercising, the more they activated their hippocampus, the memory centre of the brain, and the caudate nucleus, a structure involved in motor processes. The level of endocannabinoids, small molecules that produce a feeling of wellbeing during physical exertion, had a similar relationship.
This study was published in the journal Scientific Reports.
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