Effect of driving remote control car on brain activity

Abstract

Physical activities such as sports and exercises have been proved to have positive effects on our cognitive functions.In this paper, we investigated how it affects the brain activity to investigate the possibility of driving the remote control (RC) car as cognitive training.The subjects were asked to drive the RC car in two race tracks: oval and 8-shaped tracks, and their brain activity were measured by functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS).Fractional amplitude of low frequency fluctuation (fALFF) was calculated for the fNIRS data of each race track condition and baseline condition.As a result, the difference in the fALFF metric between 8-shaped track and baseline conditions was found in several regions in frontal brain regions.