The-Effect-of-Physical-Activity-on-Executive-Function-A-Brief-Commentary-on-Definitions... - 1 views
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Executive function is a higher order cognitive ability that controls basic, underlying cognitive functions for purposeful, goal-directed behavior and that has been associated with frontal lobe activity
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Kramer and his colleagues hypothesized that the effects of physical activity would be most evident for frontally dependent tasks such as executive function tasks (Kramer, Humphrey, Larish, Logan, & Strayer, 1994).
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When statistically summarized, results indicated that chronic physical activity is particularly beneficial for executive function tasks (effect size = 0.68), as compared with controlled tasks (effect size = 0.46), spatial tasks (effect size = 0.42), and speeded tasks (effect size = 0.27).
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