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Motor Coordination Correlates with Academic Achievement and Cognitive Function in Children

Valter da Rocha Fernandes; Michelle L. Scipião Ribeiro; Thais Regina Ferreira de Melo; Paulo de Tarso Maciel-Pinheiro; Thiago Teixeira Guimarães; Narahyana Bom de Araújo; Sidarta Ribeiro; Andréa Camaz Deslandes · 2016 · Frontiers in Psychology

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Abstract

The relationship between exercise and cognition is an important topic of research that only recently began to unravel. Here, we set out to investigate the relation between motor skills, cognitive function, and school performance in 45 students from 8 to 14 years of age. We used a cross-sectional design to evaluate motor coordination (Touch Test Disc), agility (Shuttle Run Speed-running back and forth), school performance (Academic Achievement Test), the Stroop test, and six sub-tests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-IV (WISC-IV). We found, that the Touch Test Disc was the best p

Abstract by Valter da Rocha Fernandes; Michelle L. Scipião Ribeiro; Thais Regina Ferreira de Melo; Paulo de Tarso Maciel-Pinheiro; Thiago Teixeira Guimarães; Narahyana Bom de Araújo; Sidarta Ribeiro; Andréa Camaz Deslandes, Frontiers in Psychology (2016) — licensed CC BY 4.0.

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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00318