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Trial reportScandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports2019

Acute high-intensity football games can improve children's inhibitory control and neurophysiological measures of attention.

Rune Rasmussen Lind, Mikkel Malling Beck, Johan Wikman, Krzysztof Malarski, Peter Krustrup, Jesper Lundbye-Jensen, Svend Sparre Geertsen

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Trial report in Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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7 authors.

Rune Rasmussen LindDepartment of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6710-3213
Mikkel Malling BeckDepartment of Nutrition, Exercise & Sports, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Johan WikmanCenter of research on Welfare, Health and Sport (CVHI), Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden.
Krzysztof MalarskiDepartment of Nutrition, Exercise & Sports, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Peter KrustrupDepartment of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1461-9838
Jesper Lundbye-JensenDepartment of Nutrition, Exercise & Sports, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Svend Sparre GeertsenDepartment of Nutrition, Exercise & Sports, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Nordea-fonden
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent studies suggest that a single bout of exercise can lead to transient performance improvements in specific cognitive domains in children. However, more knowledge is needed to determine the key exercise characteristics for obtaining these effects and how they translate into real-world settings. In the present study, we investigate how small-sided football games of either high- or moderate-intensity affect measures of inhibitory control in a school setting. Eighty-one children (mean age 11.8, 48 boys) were randomly allocated to three groups performing 20-minute of high-intensity small-sided real football games (SRF), moderate-intensity small-sided walking football games (SWF) or resting (RF). Behavioral measures of inhibitory control and neurophysiological measures of attention (P300 latency and amplitude) were obtained during a flanker task performed at baseline and 20 minutes following the intervention. Retention of declarative memory was assessed in a visual memory task 7 days after the intervention. Measures of inhibitory control improved more in children performing SRF compared to SWF 19 ms, 95% CI [7, 31 ms] (P = 0.041). This was paralleled by larger increases in P300 amplitudes at Fz in children performing SRF compared both to RF in congruent (3.54 μV, 95% CI [0.85, 6.23 μV], P = 0.039) and incongruent trials (5.56 μV, 95% CI [2.87, 8.25 μV], P < 0.001) and compared to SWF in incongruent trials (4.10 μV, 95% CI [1.41, 6.68 μV], P = 0.010). No effects were found in measures of declarative memory. Together this indicates that acute high-intensity small-sided football games can transiently improve measures of inhibitory control and neurophysiological correlates of attention. Intense small-sided football games are easily implementable and can be employed by practitioners, for example, during breaks throughout the school day.

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AttentionInhibition, PsychologicalSoccerChildChild BehaviorCognitionFemaleHumansMaleMemoryacute exercisedeclarative memoryelectroencephalographyinhibitory controlphysical activityschoolsmall-sided football games

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PMID31125468
PMCPMC6852517

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