Research Hit: How Walking Makes Some People “Super Taskers”

Those of you who have followed my writing will know that I have reported regularly on the amazing benefits of exercise and walking on the brain, body, and cognition.

However, though we know that walking can stimulate various cognitive functions, we also know that doing multiple complex or demanding tasks together reduces performance. So, walking helps stimulate creativity and improves cognitive performance — normally after walking. While walking, performance on cognitive tasks decreases. Which is often why when you really need to think something through you automatically stop or pause.

This is all in line with what we know of cognitive and brain functioning. However, some researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Centre have just published a paper with some surprising results.

What did they find?