Exercise and motivational music improves memory in lectures

It is suggested that long-term exercise benefits short-term and working memory (Sibley and Beilock, 2007). However, due to a lack of research regarding acute, muscular endurance-based bouts of exercise, it is important to examine whether short-term, motor exercise influences short-term and working memory with the support of motivational music. The purpose of this study was to examine whether acute, muscular endurance, motor exercise, and motivational music would facilitate short-term and working memory in collegiate students. Conclusion: exercise and motivational music increased short-term and working memory; however, this increase did not reach the threshold for significance. Future studies may want to identify effects of acute bouts of muscular endurance-based exercise on a more cognitively taxing recall task.