ReviewFrontiers in psychology2022
Motor skills and cognitive benefits in children and adolescents: Relationship, mechanism and perspectives.
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- 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
- Optimal exercise modalities and dose for enhancing intelligence in children and adolescents: a Bayesian network meta-analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Pooled it
- The frontal association area: exercise-induced brain plasticity in children and adolescents and implications for cognitive intervention practice.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- Effects of open-skill exercise on executive functions in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- Effects of football training on cognitive performance in children and adolescents: a meta-analytic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
- Effects of open and closed skill exercise interventions on executive function in typical children: a meta-analysis.BMC psychology · 2023Pooled it
- A Gamified Mobile Health Intervention to Promote Physical Activity, Executive Function, and Mental Health in College Students: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Trial
- Physical Activity, Self-Administered Motor Tests, and Academic Achievement in Lower Secondary School Students: A Cross-Sectional Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Influence of Structured Multisport Activities at Different Weekly Frequencies on the Gross Motor Development of Preschool Children: Evidence for a Dose-Response Relationship.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2026Article
- Association Between Visual Search Performance and Eye-Hand Coordination in School-Aged Children.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Computer Games on the Development of Physical Motor Skills and Social Interaction in Preschool Children: Quasi-Experimental Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- Enhancing Motor Competence in Rhythmic Gymnastics: Effects of the Overlapping Waves Strategy in School-Based Physical Education.The Journal of school health · 2026Article
- A portable solution for simultaneous human movement and mobile EEG acquisition: readiness potential for basketball free-throw shooting.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
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- 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
- Early Motor Interventions in Infants and Young Children: A Comprehensive Scoping Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Association Between Health-Related Physical Fitness and Cognition in Preschoolers: MOVI-HIIT Study.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2026Observational
- The relationship between motor competence and physical activity of school-aged children: the mediating effect of physical fitness in China.BMC pediatrics · 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
- Effects of Life Kinetik-based exercise training on cognitive and motor performance in individuals with intellectual disabilities.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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Abstract
Objective: There is a strong interaction between motor skills and cognitive benefits for children and young people. The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between motor skill types and their development and the cognitive benefits of children and adolescents. In turn, on this basis, it proposes pathways and mechanisms by which motor skills improve cognition, and provide a basis for subsequent teaching of skills that follow the laws of brain cognitive development. Methods: This paper summarizes the research on the relationship between different types of motor skills and their development and cognitive benefits of children and adolescents. Based on these relationships, pathways, and mechanisms for motor skills to improve cognition are tentatively proposed. Results: There is an overall pattern of "open > closed, strategy > interception, sequence > continuous" between motor skill types and the cognitive benefits of children and adolescents. Long-term motor skill learning practice is accompanied by increased cognitive benefits as skill proficiency increases. The dynamic interaction between motor skills and physical activity exposes children and adolescents to environmental stimuli and interpersonal interactions of varying complexity, promoting the development of agility, coordination and cardiorespiratory fitness, enhancing their motor experience, which in turn improves brain structure and functional activity. Conclusion: Motor skills training promote cognitive efficiency in children and adolescents. Motor skill interventions that are open-ended, strategic and sequential in nature are more effective. Environmental stimuli, interpersonal interaction, agility, coordination, and cardiorespiratory fitness can be considered as skill attribute moderators of motor skills to improve cognition.
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