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Trial reportCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2020

Relationships between gross motor skills, cardiovascular fitness, and visuospatial working memory-related brain activation in 8- to 10-year-old children.

Irene M J van der Fels, A G M de Bruijn, R J Renken, M Königs, A Meijer, J Oosterlaan, D D N M Kostons, C Visscher, R J Bosker, J Smith and 1 more

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Trial report in Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Irene M J van der Fels *Center for Human Movement Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Postbus 196, 9700 AD, Groningen, the Netherlands. i.m.j.van.der.fels@umcg.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6451-9539
A G M de Bruijn *Groningen Institute for Educational Research, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
R J RenkenNeuroimaging Center Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
M KönigsEmma Children's Hospital, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Emma Neuroscience Group, Department of Pediatrics, Amsterdam Reproduction & Development, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
A MeijerClinical Neuropsychology Section, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
J OosterlaanEmma Children's Hospital, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Emma Neuroscience Group, Department of Pediatrics, Amsterdam Reproduction & Development, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
D D N M KostonsGroningen Institute for Educational Research, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
C VisscherCenter for Human Movement Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Postbus 196, 9700 AD, Groningen, the Netherlands.
R J BoskerGroningen Institute for Educational Research, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
J SmithCenter for Human Movement Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Postbus 196, 9700 AD, Groningen, the Netherlands.
E HartmanCenter for Human Movement Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Postbus 196, 9700 AD, Groningen, the Netherlands.

Funding

HSRD VA PPO 15-410
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Relationships between gross motor skills and cardiovascular fitness with visuospatial working memory (VSWM) in children are hypothesized to be mediated by underlying functional brain mechanisms. Because there is little experimental evidence to support this mechanism, the present study was designed to investigate the relationships of gross motor skills and cardiovascular fitness with VSWM-related brain activation in 8- to 10-year-old children. Functional magnetic resonance imaging data obtained during a VSWM-task were analyzed for 80 children from grades 3 (47.5%) and 4 of 21 primary schools in the Netherlands (51.3% girls). Gross motor skills (Korper Koordinationstest für Kinder and Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency - 2nd Edition) and cardiovascular fitness (20-meter Shuttle Run Test) were assessed. VSWM-related brain activation was found in a network involving the angular gyrus, the superior parietal cortex, and the thalamus; deactivation was found in the inferior and middle temporal gyri. Although behavioral results showed significant relations of gross motor skills and cardiovascular fitness with VSWM performance, gross motor skills and cardiovascular fitness were not related to VSWM-related brain activation. Therefore, we could not confirm the hypothesis that brain activation underlies the relationship of gross motor skills and cardiovascular fitness with VSWM performance. Our results suggest that either the effects of physical activity on cognition do not necessarily go via changes in gross motor skills and/or cardiovascular fitness, or that brain activation patterns as measured with the blood-oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) signal may not be the mechanism underlying the relationships of gross motor skills and cardiovascular fitness with VSWM.

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Brain MappingCardiorespiratory FitnessCerebral CortexChildChild DevelopmentFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMemory, Short-TermMotor SkillsNerve NetPsychomotor PerformanceSpace PerceptionThalamusVisual PerceptionBrain functioningCognitionExecutive functionsNeuroimagingPhysical fitness

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PMID32700292
PMCPMC7395020

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