Sweat so you don’t forget: Exercise breaks during a University Lecture increase on-task attention and learning.

Fenesi, Barbara; Lucibello, Kristen; Kim, Joseph A.; Heisz, Jennifer J.

doi:10.1016/j.jarmac.2018.01.012

Sweat so you don’t forget: Exercise breaks during a University Lecture increase on-task attention and learning.

We examined the impact of taking exercise breaks, non-exercise breaks, or no breaks on learning among first year Introductory Psychology students. Three 5-minute breaks were equally distributed throughout a 50-minute computer-based video lecture. The exercise breaks group performed a series of ca…