Fabien Dal Maso, PhD, assistant professor in the department of kinesiology at University of Montreal and first author with researchers from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, of the study titled “Acute Cardiovascular Exercise Promotes Functional Changes in Cortico-Motor Networks During the Early Stages of Motor Memory Consolidation” published in NeuroImage.
Whether you’re learning a tennis swing or a foreign language, exercise helps your brain retain this new information.