ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
Association between fundamental motor skills and executive function in preschool children: A cross-sectional study.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06016296 (Effects of Combined Movement and Storytelling Intervention on Fundamental Motor Skills, Language Development and Physical Activity Level in Children Aged 3 to 6 Years), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Effects of Combined Movement and Storytelling Intervention on Fundamental Motor Skills, Language Development and Physical Activity Level in Children Aged 3 to 6 Years: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 36 citations in OpenAlex.
- Research progress on the relationship between fine motor skills and academic ability in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Pooled it
- Effects of a structured fundamental motor skills intervention on executive function in second grade students: a randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Effects of coordination-based training on preschool children's physical fitness, motor competence and inhibition control.BMC pediatrics · 2025Trial
- Early Childhood Movement- and Arts-Based Experiences and Executive Functions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Postural Stability, Rather than Strength-Coordination, Is Associated with Executive Functions in Preschool Children: A Structural Equation Modeling Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Storytelling in Motion: Effects of a Narrative-Based Outdoor Motor Intervention on Motor Competence and Inhibitory Control in Preschool Children-A Quasi-Experimental Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Predictive associations between brain functional connectivity, motor abilities, and executive function development in early childhood: a longitudinal machine learning study.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Physical activity intervention improves executive function in children with autism spectrum disorder: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Review
- Mediation of executive functions in the relationship between motor skills and psychosocial health in preschool children.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2025Article
- Executive function skills predict motor competence in preschool children.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- The relationship between fundamental motor skills and executive function in children: a stratified analysis by age and sex.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Associations between physical fitness and executive functions in 10-13 year male children in Saudi Arabia.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Cluster analysis of motor coordination and health-related fitness in preschool children: population classification and variable contribution based on principal component analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- An investigation of the relationship and pathways of influence between body mass index, motor coordination, and health-related physical fitness index in preschool children.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The effects of structured coordinative exercise protocol on physical fitness, motor competence and inhibitory control in preschool children.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Individual, family, and environmental correlates of fundamental motor skills among school-aged children: a cross-sectional study in China.BMC public health · 2024Article
- I-MovE. An intervention to promote movement at childcare centers: Benefits for motor cognitive and socio-emotional development.PloS one · 2024Article
- Association between moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and attention among children aged 6-12 years: chain mediating effects of fundamental movement skills and aerobic fitness.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- Effects of Combined Movement and Storytelling Intervention on Fundamental Motor Skills, Language Development and Physical Activity Level in Children Aged 3 to 6 Years: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A school-family blended multi-component physical activity program for Fundamental Motor Skills Promotion Program for Obese Children (FMSPPOC): protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Objective: The main purpose of this study was to explore the association between early fundamental motor skills (FMS) and executive function (EF) in preschool children. Methods: A total of 394 young children (4.07 ± 0.76 years) were evaluated. The FMS and EF were evaluated using the Test of Gross Motor Development-2 (TGMD-2) and the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery (NTCB), respectively. Results: Total FMS score was moderately and positively correlated with total EF score ( Conclusion: FMS were significantly and positively correlated with EF and were significant predictors of EF. Early childhood policymakers, preschool teachers, and researchers should take these connections seriously and implement appropriate complex motor intervention programs in future teaching to stimulate the development of both motor and higher-order cognitive skills in preschool children.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.