10/2025: Nick's paper titled "Brawn and Brainpower: Acute Resistance Exercise Improves Behavioral and Neuroelectric Measures of Executive Function" was accepted for publication in Psychophysiology.
9/2025: Alvin's paper titled "Beyond linear measures: Revealing hidden neural dynamics in sports and exercise cognition with non-linear EEG" was accepted for publication in Biological Psychology.
8/2025: Alvin was offered a Research Breakthrough Seed Award ($20,000) through Purdue's John Martinson Honor College (JMHC) to foster a new collaborative research project that investigates the interactive effects of menstrual cycle, fitness, and health-related behaviors such as diet and exercise on cognition, emotion, and gait performance. This study will host 5 JMHC students to gain research experience and complete their honors scholarly projects.
7/2025: Dr. Chun-Hao Wang, professor of Institute of Physical Education, Health, & Leisure Studies from National Cheng-Kung University, is meeting students and faculty to share his research and potential collaboration with his ongoing projects on developing ecologically valid motor-cognitive fitness assessment. He will give a talk titled "Bridging Lab and Field: Applying Cognitive Neuroscience in Sport and Exercise Science." on 7/9 at 10am in Lambert room 206.
6/2025: Alvin was awarded a pilot grant ($10,000) through Health of the Forces Pilot Funding Program interactive effects of menstrural cycle, fitness, and exercise on cognition and emotion.
5/2025: Manuela's paper titled "The relationship between cardiorespiratory fitness and resting-state cortical activation: An EEG study on power spectrum density" was accepted for publication in International Journal of Psychophysiology.
5/2025: Alvin has been selected for the Developing Scholar Award from International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP)! Alvin will receive the award at 2025 ISSP congress in Hong Kong and give a 15-min presentation about research conducted in PANCH lab.
5/2025: Manuela has been selected to receive the Marsh Center Student Research Award through the Psychobiology and Behavior Interest Group of ACSM! Manuela will receive a certificate of achievement, a $500 award, and recognition at the 2025 ACSM meeting in Atlanta as well as be invited to present the highlights of her research at the Interest Group meeting.
1/2025: Nick's paper titled "Mind-Muscle Connections": Differential Associations Between Handgrip and Upper-Body Strength with Cognitive Function in Young and Middle-Aged Adults" was accepted for publication in Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology.
1/2025: Daniel's paper titled "The Effects of Gymnastics Programs with Different Cognitive Loads on Working Memory and Prefrontal Cortex Oxygenation: A Randomized Controlled Trial" was accepted for publication in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise.
11/2024: Manuela successfully presented the plan of study for her doctoral study and passed the examination. Congratulations!
11/2024: Salim successfully passed the proposal exam for his master's thesis titled "Altering Emotional Reactivity Through Exercise and Mindfulness." Congratulations!
10/2024: Alvin's paper titled "Maintained cognitive gains after 10 weeks of cognitively engaging exercise via reducing body fat in overweight children" was accepted for publication in International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology.
5/2024: Alvin was awarded a pilot grant ($10,000) through CEREBBRAL to investigate the acute effects of mindfulness and aerobic exercise on emotional reactivity.
4/2024: Alvin was awarded a R21 ($423,036) through National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to investigate the acute and chronic effects of mindfulness-based HIIT intervention on executive function in 8-12 years old children.
4/2024: Alvin's paper titled "A multimodal approach integrating cognitive and motor demands into physical activity for optimal mental health: methodological issues and future directions" was accepted for publication in Progress in Brain Research.
4/2024: Kyoungmin's paper titled "The relationship of aerobic fitness with verbal and spatial working memory: An ERP study" was accepted for publication in Progress in Brain Research.
4/2024: Nick's paper titled "Acute effects of high-intensity resistance exercise on recognition of relational memory, lactate, and serum and plasma BDNF" was accepted for publication in Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.
01/2024: Nick's paper titled "Size or strength? How components of muscle relate to behavioral and neuroelectric measures of executive function independent of aerobic fitness" was accepted for publication in Brain and Cognition.