About the project
Our research project aims to address the gap in the literature by looking at a simple movement task. Even simple movements involve multistage information processing in the brain, where signals between the brain and the body guide behaviour. Attention, motor control, and importantly the ability to suppress unwanted actions – or response inhibition – are all key components to the production of a movement. As motor task difficulty increases attentional demand follows suit, at the same time response inhibition is working to ensure inappropriate movements or responses are not made.
Disentangling how motor control and attention interact to influence response inhibition could further our understanding of the interplay between exercise and cognition.
The project is ongoing, however we are not recruiting more participants at this time.
