Does standing up enhance performance on the Stroop task in healthy young adults? : a systematic review and meta-analysis

Šömen, Maja Maša (author), Peskar, Manca (author), Wollesen, Bettina (author), Gramann, Klaus (author), Marušič, Uroš (author)

Understanding the changes in cognitive processing that accompany changes in posture can expand our understanding of embodied cognition and open new avenues for applications in (neuro)ergonomics. Recent studies have challenged the question of whether standing up alters cognitive performance. An electronic database search for randomized controlled trials was performed using Academic Search Complete, CINAHL Ultimate, MEDLINE, PubMed, and Web of Science following PRISMA guidelines, PICOS framework, and standard quality assessment criteria (SQAC). We pooled data from a total of 603 healthy young adults for incongruent and 578 for congruent stimuli and Stroop effect (mean age = 24 years). Using random-effects results, no difference was found between sitting and standing for the Stroop effect (Hedges’ g = 0.13, 95% CI = −0.04 to 0.29, p = 0.134), even when comparing congruent (Hedges’ g = 0.10; 95% CI: −0.132 to 0.339; Z = 0.86; p = 0.389) and incongruent (Hedges’ g = 0.18; 95% CI: −0.072 to 0.422; Z = 1.39; p = 0.164) stimuli separately. Importantly, these results imply that changing from a seated to a standing posture in healthy young adults is unlikely to have detrimental effects on selective attention and cognitive control. To gain a full understanding of this phenomenon, further research should examine this effect in a population of healthy older adults, as well as in a population with pathology.

• Language: English
• Keywords: healthy young adults, dual tasks, posture, Stroop task, cognitive-motor interference, sit-to-stand workstations
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: 24 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 20, iss. 3, art. 2319
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-155544
• UDC: 796.012.1
• ISSN on article: 1660-4601
• DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20032319
• COBISS.SI-ID: 140005635
• Publication date in RUL: 05.04.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: International journal of environmental research and public health
• Shortened title: Int. j. environ. res. public health
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 1660-4601
• COBISS.SI-ID: 1818965

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: kognitivno-motorične interference, dvojne naloge, zdravi mladi odrasli, kineziologija, telesna pripravljenost, ergonomija, drža

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: H2020
• Project number: 952401
• Name: TWINning the BRAIN with machine learning for neuro-muscular efficiency
• Acronym: TwinBrain

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P5-0381
• Name: Kineziologija za kakovost življenja