TY - JOUR
T1 - Task switching in overweight children
T2 - Effects of acute exercise and age
AU - Tomporowski, Philip D.
AU - Davis, Catherine L.
AU - Lambourne, Kate
AU - Gregoski, Mathew
AU - Tkacz, Joseph
PY - 2008/10
Y1 - 2008/10
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Cognition
KW - Exercise psychology
KW - Information processing
KW - Pediatrics
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U2 - 10.1123/jsep.30.5.497
DO - 10.1123/jsep.30.5.497
M3 - Article
C2 - 18971509
AN - SCOPUS:53349141935
SN - 0895-2779
VL - 30
SP - 497
EP - 511
JO - Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
JF - Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
IS - 5
ER -