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Into the Square and out of the Box: The effects of Quadrato Motor Training on Creativity and Alpha Coherence
Authors:Tal Dotan Ben-Soussan  Joseph Glicksohn  Abraham Goldstein  Aviva Berkovich-Ohana  Opher Donchin
Affiliation:1. The Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.; 2. Department of Criminology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.; 3. Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.; 4. Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.; 5. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Be’er-Sheva, Israel.; Catholic University of Sacro Cuore, Italy,
Abstract:The objective of the present study was to investigate the body-cognitive relationship through behavioral and electrophysiological measures in an attempt to uncover the underlying mediating neuronal mechanism for movement-induced cognitive change. To this end we examined the effects of Quadrato Motor Training (QMT), a new whole-body training paradigm on cognitive performance, including creativity and reaction time tasks, and electrophysiological change, using a within-subject pre-post design. Creativity was studied by means of the Alternate Uses Task, measuring ideational fluency and ideational flexibility. Electrophysiological effects were measured in terms of alpha power and coherence. In order to determine whether training-induced changes were driven by the cognitive or the motor aspects of the training, we used two control groups: Verbal Training (VT, identical cognitive training with verbal response) and Simple Motor Training (SMT, similar motor training with reduced choice requirements). Twenty-seven participants were randomly assigned to one of the groups. Following QMT, we found enhanced inter-hemispheric and intra-hemispheric alpha coherence, and increased ideational flexibility, which was not the case for either the SMT or VT groups. These findings indicate that it is the combination of the motor and cognitive aspects embedded in the QMT which is important for increasing ideational flexibility and alpha coherence.
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