While compelling evidence indicates that poorer aerobic fitness relates to impairments in retrieving information from hippocampal-dependent memory, there is a paucity of research on how aerobic fitness relates to the acquisition of such relational information. Accordingly, the present investigation examined the association between aerobic fitness and the rate of encoding spatial relational memory—assessed using a maximal oxygen consumption test and a spatial configuration task—in a sample of 152 college-aged adults. The findings from this investigation revealed no association between aerobic fitness and the acquisition of spatial relational memory. These findings have implications for how aerobic fitness is characterized with regard to memory, such that aerobic fitness does not appear to relate to the rate of learning spatial–relational information; however, given previously reported evidence, aerobic fitness may be associated with a greater ability to recall relational information from memory.

虽然令人信服的证据表明，较差的有氧适能与从海马依赖性记忆中检索信息的障碍有关，但关于有氧适能如何与获取此类相关信息之间的关系的研究却很少。因此，本研究以 152 名大学生为样本，考察了有氧健身与空间关系记忆编码率之间的关联（使用最大耗氧量测试和空间配置任务进行评估）。这项调查的结果表明有氧健身与空间关系记忆的获得之间没有关联。这些发现对于如何在记忆方面表征有氧健身具有重要意义，因此有氧健身似乎与学习空间关系信息的速率无关；然而，鉴于之前报道的证据，有氧健身可能与从记忆中回忆相关信息的能力更强有关。