Task Switching in Overweight Children: Effects of Acute Exercise and Age
| Autor: | Catherine L. Davis, Mathew J. Gregoski, Kate Lambourne, Philip D. Tomporowski, Joseph Tkacz |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Task switching Decision Making Reversal Learning Overweight Article Functional Laterality law.invention Task (project management) Developmental psychology Arousal Physical medicine and rehabilitation Randomized controlled trial law medicine Aerobic exercise Humans Attention Child Exercise Applied Psychology Problem Solving Age Factors Cognition Test (assessment) Pattern Recognition Visual Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity Female medicine.symptom Psychology human activities Psychomotor Performance |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| Popis: | The short-term aftereffects of a bout of moderate aerobic exercise were hypothesized to facilitate children’s executive functioning as measured by a visual task-switching test. Sixty-nine children (mean age = 9.2 years) who were overweight and inactive performed a category-decision task before and immediately following a 23-min bout of treadmill walking and, on another session, before and following a nonexercise period. The acute bout of physical activity did not influence the children’s global switch cost scores or error rates. Age-related differences in global switch cost scores, but not error scores, were obtained. These results, in concert with several studies conducted with adults, fail to confirm that single bouts of moderately intense physical activity influence mental processes involved in task switching. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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