Ohio State University

A little music with exercise boosts brain power, study suggests

Published in Elder Law Weekly, April 14th, 2004

It's no secret that exercise improves mood, but new research suggests that working out to music may give exercisers a cognitive boost.

Listening to music while exercising helped to increase scores on a verbal fluency test among cardiac rehabilitation patients.

"Evidence suggests that exercise improves the cognitive performance of people with coronary artery disease," said Charles F. Emery, Ohio State University. "And listening to music is thought to enhance brain power. We wanted to put the two results together."

Those results appear in a recent issue of the journal Heart & Lung.

The study included 33...

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