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The purpose of the present study is to have a survey on the effect of the type of the acute aerobic exercise along with the moderate intensity on the response inhibition ability of the athlete university students. To do so, based on the criteria to enter or exit the survey, 28 athlete university students were selected among all the population of the students studying in Kurdistan University and were randomly divided into two groups: 14 students were assigned as the treadmill group (age: 22.5 years old ±1.28) and 14 other students as the ergometer group (age: 22 years old ±1.88) to be investigated in the survey. These students were involved in physical activities for 35 minutes with the intensity of 60 -65% maximum heartbeat rate. In order to investigating the response inhibition ability, the computerized Stroop and Wisconsin cart sorting tests were used before ,immediately after and 20 minutes after the exercise. The results of the variance analysis test between the groups with repeated measures revealed that there is no significant difference between the results of the two physical activities on the response inhibition ability of athlete university students (P=0.05) although the effect of both of these activities on the response inhibition ability were positive and significant (P=0.000).So it is concluded that any kinds of acute aerobic exercise can improve the response inhibition ability.

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