The effect of a single exercise bout on children's short-term memory depends on an interaction of time, age, and exercise type.¶
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q3 i? The three-way time × age × exercise interaction was significant, indicating that the pre-to-post change in STM spans differed across exercise types and age groups. → Ottoboni Giovanni 2021
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Ottoboni Giovanni 2021¶
Ottoboni Giovanni, Ceciliani Andrea, Tessari Alessia. (2021). The Effect of Structured Exercise on Short-Term Memory Subsystems: New Insight on Training Activities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18147545
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Omnibus multivariate ANOVA on 125 children's spans with factors exercise, age, gender, memory task and time. The three-way interaction was significant, "F(2, 112) = 3.79, p = 0.026", followed by age-specific corrected t-tests.
"Most importantly, the time × age × exercise interaction was significant (F(2, 112) = 3.79, p = 0.026): in the group aged 7–8 years, we found a positive effect of the open-skill exercise with a better performance at T1, post-exercise retest (one-tailed corrected t-test, t(22) = 3.86, p < 0.001), but no effect of both closed-skill and control activities (p > 0.05)."
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Related Claims¶
- A single bout of closed-skill exercise improves short-term memory performance only in older primary-school children (9–10 years), not in 7–8-year-olds. — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- A single bout of open-skill exercise improves short-term memory performance in primary-school children of both age groups (7–8 and 9–10 years). — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- A sedentary control condition (Italian grammar lesson) produces no improvement in children's short-term memory performance at either age. — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Short-term memory task profiles differ by age: 7–8-year-olds show no verbal–spatial difference, while 9–10-year-olds show a verbal > visuo-spatial > motor gradient. — related
- Age may moderate acute PA effects on attention: effects appeared for 9–10 year olds but not 7–8 year olds — related
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The effect of a single exercise bout on children's short-term memory depends on an interaction of time, age, and exercise type. |
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The effect of a single exercise bout on children's short-term memory depends on an interaction of time, age, and exercise type. |
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