Effects of Combined Physical and Cognitive Stimulation on Go/No-Go Performance in Older Women: A Pilot and Feasibility Study
Mauricio Barramuño-Medina, Pablo Valdés-Badilla, Pablo Aravena-Sagardia, Jordan Hernandez-Martínez, Edgar Vásquez-Carrasco, Esteban Fariña-Hermosilla, Wilson Pastén-Hidalgo, Germán Gálvez-García · 2026
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Description
Aging slows reactions and blurs the line between go and stop, but combined training may sharpen body and mind together. Mauricio Barramuño-Medina and co-authors pilot such a program in a 2026 feasibility study. Thirty-three women around age seventy trained for twelve weeks.
The program mixed multicomponent exercise with cognitive stimulation, with testing at the start, middle, and end. Reaction times fell by about fifty milliseconds and missed signals nearly vanished. False alarms, though, rose, suggesting the women traded caution for speed. Memory, fluency, and orientation scores improved modestly, while quality of life rose only in general health. The authors read the pattern as a reorganization of performance worth testing at scale.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mauricio Barramuño-Medina, Pablo Valdés-Badilla, Pablo Aravena-Sagardia, Jordan Hernandez-Martínez, Edgar Vásquez-Carrasco, Esteban Fariña-Hermosilla, Wilson Pastén-Hidalgo, Germán Gálvez-García |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |