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Effects of the Enriched Sports Activities-Program on Executive Functions in Italian Children.

2020

Physical activity (PA) during childhood plays an important role in brain development. This role is played in both the structural domain, prefrontal cortex area, and in the functional domain, involving the higher cognitive functions, including the executive functions (EF). Working memory (WM), inhibition, and switching as fundamental EF were investigated in an Italian children sample before and after four months of an Enriched Sports Activities-Program (ESA-Program). EFs were assessed at pre-test and post-test using, respectively, the digit span test, the color word Stroop test, and the trail making test derived from Millisecond Software. The Italian sample was composed of 141 children aged …

Histologylcsh:Diseases of the musculoskeletal systemTrail Making Testphysical activityPhysical Therapy Sports Therapy and RehabilitationArticleDevelopmental psychology03 medical and health sciencesSettore M-PSI/04 - Psicologia Dello Sviluppo E Psicologia Dell'Educazione0302 clinical medicineRheumatologyMemory spanOrthopedics and Sports MedicineCognitive skillPrefrontal cortexWorking memoryESA-Program Executive functions Physical activityESA-ProgramCognition030229 sport sciencesExecutive functionsexecutive functionsexecutive functionAnatomylcsh:RC925-935PsychologySettore M-EDF/01 - Metodi E Didattiche Delle Attivita' Motorie030217 neurology & neurosurgeryStroop effectJournal of functional morphology and kinesiology
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