The EXE group showed descriptively higher within-session online learning rates across sessions 2-6, a moderate but non-significant between-group effect (d = 0.53)¶

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q3 i2 Within-session online learning rates averaged across sessions 2-6 were higher in the exercise group, but the moderate effect was not statistically significant (t(22) = -1.29, p = .209, d = 0.53). → Wanner 2025

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Wanner 2025¶

Wanner, P., Frisch, N., Rikus, S., Roig, M. & Steib, S. (2025). Cardiovascular exercise enhances motor learning across multiple sessions in people with Parkinson's disease: a randomized controlled pilot trial. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00391-6

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Exploratory analysis of the randomized pilot trial fitting power functions to block data per session to quantify within-session learning rates. The test was not significant, though the article prints the effect size d = 0.53, a moderate effect (0.4-0.79); the finding is a non-significant trend.

"participants in the EXE group exhibited higher within-session online learning rates averaged across sessions 2 -6, but this moderate between -group effect was not statistically significant (t(22) = -1.29, p = .209, d = 0.53;"

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