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Effects of the FITKids Randomized Controlled Trial on Executive Control and Brain Function
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OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of a physical activity (PA) intervention on brain and behavioral indices of executive control in preadolescent children. METHODS: Two hundred twenty-one children (7–9 years) were randomly assigned to a 9-month afterschool PA program or a wait-list control. In addition to changes in fitness (maximal oxygen consumption), electrical activity in the brain (P3-ERP) and behavioral measures (accuracy, reaction time) of executive control were collected by using tasks that modulated attentional inhibition and cognitive flexibility. RESULTS: Fitness improved more among intervention participants from pretest to posttest compared with the wait-list control (1.3 mL/kg per minute, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.3 to 2.4; d = 0.34 for group difference in pre-to-post change score). Intervention participants exhibited greater improvements from pretest to posttest in inhibition (3.2%, 95% CI: 0.0 to 6.5; d = 0.27) and cognitive flexibility (4.8%, 95% CI: 1.1 to 8.4; d = 0.35 for group difference in pre-to-post change score) compared with control. Only the intervention group increased attentional resources from pretest to posttest during tasks requiring increased inhibition (1.4 µV, 95% CI: 0.3 to 2.6; d = 0.34) and cognitive flexibility (1.5 µV, 95% CI: 0.6 to 2.5; d = 0.43). Finally, improvements in brain function on the inhibition task (r = 0.22) and performance on the flexibility task correlated with intervention attendance (r = 0.24). CONCLUSIONS: The intervention enhanced cognitive performance and brain function during tasks requiring greater executive control. These findings demonstrate a causal effect of a PA program on executive control, and provide support for PA for improving childhood cognition and brain health.
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“Although there may be a bi-directional relationship between physical activity and mental health, experimental studies conducted with youth have demonstrated that increasing physical activity has small but positive effects on a range of cognitive and mental health outcomes. 6-9”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hillman, C. H., Pontifex, M. B., Castelli, D. M., Khan, N. A., Raine, L. B., Scudder, M. R., Drollette, E. S., Moore, R. D., Wu, C.-T., & Kamijo, K.
- Affiliations
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Michigan State University (US)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- Schreiner University (US)
- Waseda University (JP)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Pediatrics
- Publisher
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
- Published
- 2014-10-01
- Volume
- 134
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- e1063-e1071
- ISSN
- 0031-4005 (ISSN-L)
- 1098-4275
- PMC
- PMC4179093
- OpenAlex
- W2129893863
- Semantic Scholar
- 69284f7bd5a80b16da4bf01cd0eff0831883d0be
- Cited by
- 661
- References
- 44
- Citations by year
- 2026: 35 · 2025: 49 · 2024: 52 · 2023: 63 · 2022: 58 · 2021: 69 · 2020: 61 · 2019: 62 · 2018: 60 · 2017: 49 · 2016: 55 · 2015: 39 · 2014: 5
- FWCI
- 32.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- PEDIATRICS (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD055352)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Physical Activity and Health
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Children's Physical and Motor Development
- Keywords
- physical activity interventions, executive function, preadolescents, P3 event-related potential, attentional inhibition, cognitive flexibility, cardiorespiratory fitness, brain function, children's cognition, reaction time
- MeSH terms
- Body Weight, Brain, Child, Cognition, Female, Humans, Male, Physical Fitness, Psychomotor Performance, Reaction Time, Exercise, Executive Function
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