A 9-month afterschool physical activity program improved cardiorespiratory fitness and the cognitive control of working memory, with ERP evidence of more effective cognitive control¶

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q3 i? Increases in cardiorespiratory fitness were associated with improved cognitive control of working memory, with greater benefits under higher working memory demands. → Berwid Olga G. 2012

Evidence¶

Berwid Olga G. 2012¶

Berwid Olga G., Halperin Jeffrey M. (2012). Emerging Support for a Role of Exercise in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Intervention Planning. Current Psychiatry Reports. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-012-0297-4

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Nine-month daily afterschool physical activity program study by Kamijo et al. in preadolescent children using ERP measures. The intervention group showed a larger initial contingent negative variation at the frontal electrode site at post-test relative to the waitlist group, an effect absent at pre-test.

"Increases in cardiorespiratory fitness were found to be associated with improvements in the cognitive control of working memory as measured using a modified Sternberg task"

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