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Physical exercise is an inexpensive treatment that could have substantial preventative and restorative properties for cognitive function and mobility. Current evidence established that mobility and cognitive impairments are associated and often co-exist among older adults. Of particular revelance, the maintenance of mobility and cognitive function are of utmost importance as they are vital to healthy aging, functional independence, and quality of life. Teresa Liu-Ambrose, University of British ColumbiaĪs the world’s aging population rapidly increases, efficient (i.e., effective and cost-effective/cost-saving) strategies to promote healthy aging at a population level becomes a necessary health care priority. Promoting Cognitive Health and Mobility in Aging Keynote Speaker: Sport and Exercise Psychology These results and others imply that vigor may serve as a new, real-time metric with which to quantify subjective value, and that the control of movements may be an implicit reflection of the brain’s economic evaluation of the expected outcome. Additionally, these immediate effects of reward and effort on vigor can be modulated by an individual’s internal state, reflected by their recent history of action. I will present results demonstrating that expectation of reward increases speed of saccadic eye and reaching movements, whereas expectation of effort expenditure decreases this speed. To better understand this, we have developed a mathematical framework demonstrating how critical decision-making variables such as reward and effort can influence not only the choice of what to do, but also the speed of the movement follows. Thus, the neural systems that represent the value of an option and drive decision-making, also influence the neural systems that control movements. However, recent findings have revealed an intriguing connection between the two: we prefer the option with the greater value, and also move faster to acquire it. The two principal functions of the brain, making of decisions and making of movements, are typically studied in disparate domains. Keynote Speaker: Motor Learning and Control

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