Trial reportPsychophysiology2018
Effects of the FITKids physical activity randomized controlled trial on conflict monitoring in youth.
Trial report in Psychophysiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Optimal physical activity type and dosage for improving inhibitory control in children and adolescents: a dose-response network meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of the dose-response relationship between aerobic exercise and executive function in children.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- The effects of physical activity on brain structure and neurophysiological functioning in children: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2020Pooled it
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- The differential relationship of an afterschool physical activity intervention on brain function and cognition in children with obesity and their normal weight peers.Pediatric obesity · 2021Trial
- The role of BMI on cognition following acute physical activity in preadolescent children.Trends in neuroscience and education · 2020Trial
- Physical Activity and Its Effects on Executive Functions and Brain Outcomes in Children: A Narrative Review.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Associations between cardiorespiratory fitness and executive function in Chinese adolescents.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The relationship of muscular endurance and coordination and dexterity with behavioral and neuroelectric indices of attention in preschool children.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Effect of exercise on inhibitory control is dose-dependent for adolescents.Sports medicine and health science · 2022Article
- Differential effects of changes in cardiorespiratory fitness on worst- and best- school subjects.NPJ science of learning · 2021Article
- Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Youth: An Important Marker of Health: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.Circulation · 2020Review
- Baseline Cognitive Performance Moderates the Effects of Physical Activity on Executive Functions in Children.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Moving fast, thinking fast: The relations of physical activity levels and bouts to neuroelectric indices of inhibitory control in preadolescents.Journal of sport and health science · 2019Article
- Motor performance or opportunities to move? What do children need the most?Journal of sport and health science · 2019Article
- Physical Activity Increases White Matter Microstructure in Children.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2018Article
- The Association of Physical Activity and Stress-induced Neurocognitive Impairments in Inhibitory Control in Children.Chronic stress (Thousand Oaks, Calif.)Article
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Abstract
The present study investigated the effect of a 9-month physical activity (PA) intervention on children's cardiorespiratory fitness levels and neuroelectric indices of conflict monitoring (i.e., error-related negativity, ERN). Four hundred twenty-eight preadolescent children (8-9 years old) were randomized into a PA intervention or wait-list control group, and completed a fitness and cognitive control assessment (i.e., modified flanker task) at pre- and posttest. Following exclusion criterion, 308 children were included in the analyses (PA intervention: n = 139; wait-list control: n = 169). Children in the intervention displayed greater improvements in fitness and response accuracy, which were accompanied by stability of ERN amplitude from pre- to posttest. In contrast, the control group revealed increased ERN amplitude at posttest compared to pretest, despite no change in fitness or task performance. These findings demonstrate the efficacy of daily PA for promoting children's fitness and underlying neural processes associated with effective conflict monitoring. Such findings have significant implications for promoting organized PA programs intended to foster overall physical and brain health in school age children.
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