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Michel Audiffren

Michel Audiffren

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Psychology

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31
Citations
4966
World Ranking
11140
National Ranking
101

Overview

Michel Audiffren is affiliated with the University of Poitiers in France and specializes in research across neuroscience, medicine, and psychology. Their work spans a range of topics related to behavioral health, neural psychology, and cardiovascular physiology, with a focus on mechanisms underlying cognitive and physical performance.

Their research includes contributions to the following primary fields of study:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine
  • Psychology

Within these disciplines, Audiffren has notably contributed to subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, applied psychology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, physiology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Applied Psychology
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Physiology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

The main research topics addressed in Audiffren's work include behavioral health and interventions, neural and behavioral psychology studies, heart rate variability and autonomic control, mind wandering and attention, physical activity and health, cardiovascular and exercise physiology, and sports performance and training.

  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Mind Wandering and Attention
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Cardiovascular and Exercise Physiology
  • Sports Performance and Training

Michel Audiffren has published articles in several academic venues, with frequent appearances in Frontiers in Psychology, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, International Journal of Psychophysiology, Psychology of Sport and Exercise, and Frontiers in Neuroscience.

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Psychology of Sport and Exercise
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience

Recent papers with Michel Audiffren as author or co-author include:

  • No ego-depletion effect without a good control task (2021), Psychology of Sport and Exercise
  • Training Willpower: Reducing Costs and Valuing Effort (2022), Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • A plausible link between the time-on-task effect and the sequential task effect (2022), Frontiers in Psychology
  • A Behavioral Perspective for Improving Exercise Adherence (2024), Sports Medicine - Open
  • Acute Effects of Low- and High-Speed Resistance Exercise on Cognitive Function in Frail Older Nursing-Home Residents: A Randomized Crossover Study (2021), Journal of Aging Research

Their frequent co-authors include Nathalie André, Thomas Mangin, Alison Lorcery, Benjamin Pageaux, and Francesco Mirabelli.

  • Nathalie André
  • Thomas Mangin
  • Alison Lorcery
  • Benjamin Pageaux
  • Francesco Mirabelli

In addition to journal publications, Michel Audiffren has contributed to book scholarship, notably publishing with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. One such work is De l'identification à l'acceptabilité sociale des risques une approche pluridisciplinaire (2024).

Best Publications

  • The reticular-activating hypofrontality (RAH) model of acute exercise.

    Arne Dietrich;Michel Audiffren

  • Increased heart rate variability and executive performance after aerobic training in the elderly.

    Cédric T. Albinet;Geoffroy Boucard;Cédric A. Bouquet;Michel Audiffren

  • Processing speed and executive functions in cognitive aging: How to disentangle their mutual relationship?

    Cédric T. Albinet;Geoffroy Boucard;Cédric A. Bouquet;Michel Audiffren

  • Acute aerobic exercise and information processing: energizing motor processes during a choice reaction time task.

    Michel Audiffren;Phillip D. Tomporowski;James Zagrodnik

  • Influence of Physical Exercise on Simple Reaction Time: Effect of Physical Fitness:

    J Brisswalter;R Arcelin;M Audiffren;D Delignières

  • Facilitating effects of exercise on information processing

    Karen Davranche;Michel Audiffren

  • Acute aerobic exercise and information processing: Modulation of executive control in a Random Number Generation task

    Michel Audiffren;Phillip D. Tomporowski;James Zagrodnik

  • The strength model of self-control revisited: Linking acute and chronic effects of exercise on executive functions

    Michel Audiffren;Nathalie André

  • Effects of acute exercise on sensory and executive processing tasks.

    Kate Lambourne;Michel Audiffren;Phillip D. Tomporowski

  • Exercise and cognitive function

    Terry McMorris;Phillip D. Tomporowski;Michel Audiffren

  • Physical exercise facilitates motor processes in simple reaction time performance: an electromyographic analysis.

    Karen Davranche;Borís Burle;Michel Audiffren;Thierry Hasbroucq

  • A distributional analysis of the effect of physical exercise on a choice reaction time task

    Karen Davranche;Michel Audiffren;André Denjean

  • Information processing during physical exercise: a chronometric and electromyographic study

    Karen Davranche;Borís Burle;Michel Audiffren;Thierry Hasbroucq

  • Impact of physical activity on executive functions in aging: a selective effect on inhibition among old adults.

    Geoffroy K. Boucard;Cédric T. Albinet;Aurélia Bugaiska;Cédric A. Bouquet

  • Effects of a prolonged run on simple reaction time of well trained runners.

    M. Collardeau;J. Brisswalter;M. Audiffren

  • Single and choice reaction time during prolonged exercise in trained subjects: influence of carbohydrate availability.

    M. Collardeau;J. Brisswalter;F. Vercruyssen;M. Audiffren

  • Executive functions improvement following a 5-month aquaerobics program in older adults: Role of cardiac vagal control in inhibition performance

    Cédric T. Albinet;Amira Abou-Dest;Nathalie André;Michel Audiffren

  • The interactive effect of achievement motivation and task difficulty on mental effort.

    Rémi L. Capa;Michel Audiffren;Stéphanie Ragot

  • Effect of overreaching on cognitive performance and related cardiac autonomic control.

    O. Dupuy;O. Dupuy;M. Lussier;S. Fraser;L. Bherer

  • The effects of achievement motivation, task difficulty, and goal difficulty on physiological, behavioral, and subjective effort

    Rémi L. Capa;Michel Audiffren;Stéphanie Ragot

  • Effects of BDNF polymorphism and physical activity on episodic memory in the elderly: a cross sectional study.

    Anne Canivet;Cédric T. Albinet;Nathalie André;Jean Pylouster

  • Reliability of heart rate measures used to assess post-exercise parasympathetic reactivation.

    Olivier Dupuy;Saïd Mekary;Nicolas Berryman;Nicolas Berryman;Louis Bherer

Frequent Co-Authors

Phillip D. Tomporowski
Phillip D. Tomporowski University of Georgia
Fabienne Collette
Fabienne Collette University of Liège
Louis Bherer
Louis Bherer University of Montreal
Terry McMorris
Terry McMorris University of Chichester
Boris Burle
Boris Burle Aix-Marseille University
Thierry Hasbroucq
Thierry Hasbroucq Aix-Marseille University
Michel Hansenne
Michel Hansenne University of Liège
Matthias Kliegel
Matthias Kliegel University of Geneva
Michelle Fleury
Michelle Fleury Université Laval
Roy F. Baumeister
Roy F. Baumeister University of Queensland

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