Acute bouts of exercise in preschool children do not affect working memory capacity but accelerate the execution of the task
Ivan Serbetar, Martina Bosak, Ivana Antolić · FENS Forum 2024
Except for maintaining weight and reducing health risks during childhood, physicalactivity is important for enhancing children’s mental functioning and cognitive development. Executive function (EF) constitutes supervisory control of cognitive functions to achieve a goal and is mediated via prefrontal cortex circuitry (Davis et al., 2011). EF is necessary for goal-directed behavior, which requires allocation of attention and memory, response selection and inhibition, goal setting, self-control, self-monitoring, and skillful and flexible use of strategies (Eslinger, 1996).The current study atte
ePoster · Neuroscience