Researchers found a significant increase in runners’ performance of cognitive tasks linked to foraging.
studied the brains of ultra endurance athletes competing in two five-day 250K races in Jordan and Sri Lanka. They found that runners who lost weight during those events showed “significant adaptation of cognitive function to promote foraging ability.” It would seem our hunter-gatherer past is never too far away.
The study, delivered in collaboration with professor Jay Stock from Western University and professor Jonathan Wells from University College London, states that the changes are believed to happen as the “athletes’ brains remodeled to counteract a negative change in the environment.”Dr.
The study looked at cognitive plasticity—or the ability of the brain to adapt—across three key cognitive domains. Researchers found that while the cohort of athletes were under conditions of energetic deficit, performance in tasks of spatial working memory increased.
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