TABLE 6.
Postural, breath control, mood, and high demanding trials of cognitive control tasks (accuracy and RT) in the yoga group (n = 27).
| Task performance | Posture-control demand | Breath control demand | Mood (PANAS) | |||||||
| (High cognitive-control) | ||||||||||
| Low-R | High-R | Low-E | High-E | Low-R | High-R | Low-E | High-E | PA | NA | |
| Working memory | ||||||||||
| H-DS score | –0.14 | –0.07 | 0.32 | 0.13 | –0.33 | –0.26 | 0.45* | 0.36 | –0.12 | –0.06 |
| H-DS RT | –0.05 | 0.00 | –0.11 | –0.19 | –0.15 | –0.30 | 0.13 | 0.07 | –0.08 | –0.22 |
| H-Corsi score | –0.05 | 0.24 | –0.06 | –0.24 | 0.15 | 0.02 | 0.08 | 0.10 | –0.29 | –0.01 |
| H-Corsi RT | −0.42* | –0.01 | 0.07 | –0.04 | –0.24 | –0.14 | 0.29 | 0.25 | –0.19 | 0.31 |
| H-MRT score | 0.01 | –0.25 | 0.20 | 0.03 | 0.19 | –0.31 | –0.03 | 0.33 | –0.20 | –0.13 |
| H-MRT RT | –0.11 | –0.00 | 0.10 | –0.13 | –0.14 | 0.13 | 0.40* | 0.14 | –0.28 | 0.03 |
| Planning—cognitive flexibility | ||||||||||
| H-ToH score | –0.12 | –0.25 | 0.01 | 0.29 | –0.02 | –0.16 | 0.07 | 0.21 | 0.03 | 0.03 |
| H-ToH RT | 0.08 | 0.15 | –0.14 | 0.02 | –0.06 | 0.06 | 0.07 | 0.01 | 0.13 | 0.22 |
| H-ToL score | 0.22 | 0.21 | −0.40* | –0.17 | 0.10 | –0.10 | –0.12 | 0.13 | 0.02 | 0.15 |
| H-ToL RT | 0.10 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.21 | 0.04 | –0.25 | –0.00 | 0.09 | 0.08 | 0.22 |
| H-BCST score | –0.34 | −0.58** | 0.44* | 0.59** | –0.10 | –0.25 | 0.01 | 0.37 | 0.15 | 0.02 |
| H-BCST RT | 0.30 | 0.56** | –0.38 | −0.48* | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.08 | –0.09 | –0.09 | 0.03 |
| Inhibition | ||||||||||
| H-Simon score | 0.10 | –0.01 | 0.06 | 0.22 | 0.01 | 0.22 | –0.04 | –0.14 | 0.24 | –0.26 |
| H-Simon RT | 0.25 | 0.05 | –0.10 | –0.03 | 0.31 | 0.46* | –0.17 | –0.36 | 0.08 | –0.00 |
| H-Stroop score | 0.13 | –0.05 | –0.16 | 0.00 | 0.11 | –0.25 | 0.08 | 0.38 | 0.08 | 0.24 |
| H-Stoop RT | 0.00 | 0.10 | –0.08 | –0.09 | –0.22 | –0.09 | –0.09 | –0.20 | 0.02 | –0.03 |
| H-IGT score | –0.05 | –0.08 | 0.17 | 0.17 | 0.09 | 0.30 | –0.09 | –0.27 | 0.08 | –0.02 |
| H-IGT RT | 0.01 | –0.13 | –0.04 | 0.12 | 0.14 | –0.18 | –0.27 | 0.02 | 0.24 | 0.12 |
**Correlation is significant at 0.01 level (two-tailed); *Correlation is significant at 0.05 level (two-tailed). H-DS Score = block 2 (difficult) correct score - block 1 correct score (easy), and H-DS RT = RT of block 2 - RT of block 1; H-Corsi Score = scores of difficult block (block2) − scores of easy block (block1); H Corsi RT = RT of block 2 – RT of block 1; H MRT Score: accuracy of reverse object or Cond1 (difficult) - accuracy of original object image or Cond0 (easy); H MRT RT = RT for reversed object image − RT of original object image; H-ToH Score = correct score of trials with higher no. of steps (difficult) - correct score of trials with lower no. of steps (easy); H-ToH RT = RT of difficult – RT of easy trials; H-ToL Score = scores of difficult blocks (block 3&4; length 6&7) - scores of easy block (block 1&2; length 4&5); H ToL RT = RT of difficult block - RT of easy block; H BCST Score: percentage of preservation errors; H BCST RT: RT of total errors - RT of preservation errors; H-Simon Score = Interference suppression accuracy is incongruent trial’s correct score (difficult) - congruent trial’s correct score (easy); H-Simon RT = RT of incongruent - RT of congruent trials; H-Stroop Score = Incongruent trial’s correct score (difficult) - congruent trial’s correct score (easy); H-Stroop RT = RT of incongruent - RT of congruent trials; H-IGT score = net score of blocks 2&3 (difficult) - net score of blocks 4&5 (easy); H-IGT RT = RT of difficult blocks - RT of easy blocks.