Inhibition (or inhibitory control) refers to the ability to override a strong internal or external pull so as to act appropriately within the demands imposed by the environment (Davidson et al., 2006). The relationship of physical activity and physical fitness to cognitive and brain health and to academic performance is the subject of this chapter. Given that the brain structures most affected by aging also demonstrated the greatest fitness-related sparing, these initial findings provide a biological basis for fitness-related benefits to brain health during aging. Pediatrics 123(2):431-436. response tasks (i.e., instructions emphasizing speed of responding; Hillman et al., 2009) and more flexibility in the allocation of these resources during tasks entailing variable cognitive control demands, as evidenced by changes in ERN amplitude for higher-fit children and no modulation of ERN in lower-fit children (Pontifex et al., 2011). Journal of Health and Social Behavior 28(4):364-374. Accordingly, most studies have used designs that afford correlation rather than causation. Drollette, E. S., T. Shishido, M. B. Pontifex, and C. H. Hillman. Dwyer, T., W. Coonan, A. Worsley, and D. Leitch. Not a MyNAP member yet? 2010. Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. of research in children and adults indicating that higher levels of fitness are associated with better control of attention, memory, and cognition (Colcombe and Kramer, 2003; Hillman et al., 2008; Chang and Etnier, 2009). Systematic observation by trained observers may yield important insight regarding the effects of short physical activity breaks on these behaviors. Bartholomew, J. 1997. As well as developing physical skills, PE teaches children intellectual skills, helps them navigate complex social situations, and nurtures their emotional development. 2001. Other studies, however, have found no association between participation in sports and academic performance (Fisher et al., 1996). Annals of Behavioral Medicine 33(1):80-89. Pellegrini, A. D., and C. M. Bohn. Pontifex, M. B., M. R. Scudder, E. S. Drollette, and C. H. Hillman. Chaddock, L., C. H. Hillman, S. M. Buck, and N. J. Cohen. 69 likes, 16 comments - Sari Beth Rosenberg (@saribethrose) on Instagram: "Running & working out keep me (somewhat) sane during the global pandemic." A valuable predictor of student academic performance is a parent having clear expectations for the childs academic success. 2011. Chan, A. S., Y. C. Ho, and M. C. Cheung. The walking group but not the flexibility group showed improved cognitive performance, measured as a shorter response time to the presented stimulus. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 41(10):1921-1926. 2003. 1998. using the Fitnessgram among students in grades 3-12. Research conducted in both laboratory and field settings has helped define this line of inquiry and identify some preliminary underlying mechanisms. 1999. It is important to note that cognitive tasks completed before, during, and after physical activity show varying effects, but the effects were always positive compared with sedentary behavior. 1995. 1983. The fMRI data collected during an antisaccade task, which requires inhibitory control, indicated increased bilateral activation of the prefrontal cortex and decreased bilateral activation of the posterior parietal cortex following the physical activity intervention relative to the control group. It also provides legislative / regulatory recommendations for the purpose of improving the quality of physical education [1]. Zhu, W., G. J. Welk, M. D. Meredith, and E. A. Boiarskaia. Voss, M. W., L. Chaddock, J. S. Kim, M. VanPatter, M. B. Pontifex, L. B. Raine, N. J. Cohen, C. H. Hillman, and A. F. Kramer. 2010. A lack of activity increases the risk of heart disease, colon and breast cancer, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, osteoporosis, anxiety and depression and others diseases. For children in a school setting, regular participation in physical activity as part of an after-school program is particularly beneficial for tasks that require the use of working memory. Teaches self discipline. Sibley, B. 2007. Strong, W. B., R. M. Malina, C. J. Blimkie, S. R. Daniels, R. K. Dishman, B. Gutin, A. C. Hergenroeder, A. Working memory refers to the ability to represent information mentally, manipulate stored information, and act on the information (Davidson et al., 2006). The relationship of school absenteeism with body mass index, academic achievement, and socioeconomic status among fourth grade children. 1993. Advances in Nutrition 2(2):201S-206S. In both studies, participants were given a task requiring variable amounts of attention and inhibition. For instance, socioeconomic status has a unique relationship with physical activity (Estabrooks et al., 2003) and cognitive control (Mezzacappa, 2004). Getlinger, M. J., V. Laughlin, E. Bell, C. Akre, and B. H. Arjmandi. The effects of attendance on academic performance: Panel data evidence for introductory microeconomics. Adolescent competence, psychological well-being, and self-assessed physical health. The association of childhood obesity to neuroelectric indices of inhibition. 1993. Baxter, S. D., J.A. 2011. Estabrooks, P. A, R. E. Lee, and N. C. Gyurcsik. The results suggest that the physical activity enhanced cognitive performance for the attention task but not for the task requiring working memory. No such results were observed for those assigned to the stretching and toning group. Aerobic fitness is associated with greater efficiency of the network underlying cognitive control in preadolescent children. Also, you can type in a page number and press Enter to go directly to that page in the book. 2010. When time spent engaged in vigorous- or moderate-intensity physical activity outside of school was considered, however, a significant positive relation to academic performance emerged, with more time engaged in vigorous- or moderate-intensity physical activity being related to better grades but not test scores (Coe et al., 2006). The children sat or walked on different days for an average of 19 minutes. Ericsson, K. A., and N. Charness. In response to the need to find ways to make physical activity a health priority for youth, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment was formed. A student must listen to the teacher, adhere to classroom procedures, focus on a specific task, hold and retain information, and make connections between novel information and previous experiences. Attendance is another factor confirmed as having a significant impact on academic performance (Stanca, 2006; Baxter et al., 2011). 2011. By Nicole Maloney, Melissa Winchell November 15, 2021 FG Trade / iStock . The idea that healthy children learn better is empirically supported and well accepted (Basch, 2010), and multiple studies have confirmed that health benefits are associated with physical activity, including cardiovascular . Indeed, 11 of 14 correlational studies of physical activity during the school day demonstrate a positive relationship to academic performance (Rasberry et al., 2011). 2000. Superior auditory spatial tuning in conductors. Kramer, A. F., S. Hahn, N. J. Cohen, M. T. Banich, E. McAuley, C. R. Harrison, J. Chason, E. Vakil, L. Bardell, and R. A. Boileau. 1979. In fact, studies show that "taking it easy" is risky. In The handbook of aging and cognition. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology 19(3):249-277. It promotes health and fitness, teaches self-discipline, and builds social skills. Journal of Adolescent Health 18(5):329-334. Efrat, M. 2011. Even today, Dwyer and colleagues are among the few scholars who regularly include in their research measures of physical activity intensity in the school environment. Welk, G. J., A. W. Jackson, J. Morrow, R. James, W. H. Haskell, M. D. Meredith, and K. H. Cooper. 2011. A. Laris, L. A. Russell, K. K. Coyle, and A. J. Nihiser. Castelli, D. M., C. H. Hillman, S. M. Buck, and H. E. Erwin. Before outlining the health benefits of physical activity and fitness, it is important to note that many factors influence academic performance. Going, J. R. Morrow, and M. D. Meredith. Journal of School Health 81(12):733-740. 2010. Of interest, this relationship was disproportionately larger for the condition requiring greater amounts of inhibition in the older adults, suggesting that physical activity has both a general and selective association with task performance (Hillman et al., 2006). Silver, and R. E. K. Stein. On the dependence of P300 latency on stimulus evaluation processes. EEG and ERP assessment of normal aging. Quality phys-ed can be associated with improved mental health, since increased activity provides psychological benefits including reduced stress, anxiety and depression. Cardiorespiratory fitness and the flexible modulation of cognitive control in preadolescent children. Mnte, T. F., C. Kohlmetz, W. Nager, and E. Altenmller. Yet in one study it was sedentary students who demonstrated a decrease in time on task, while active students returned to the same level of on-task behavior after an active learning task (Grieco et al., 2009). Jump up to the previous page or down to the next one. 1984. Acute coordinative exercise improves attentional performance in adolescents. Click here to buy this book in print or download it as a free PDF, if available. berg, M. A., N. L. Pedersen, K. Torn, M. Svartengren, B. Bckstrand, T. Johnsson, C. M. Cooper-Kuhn, N. D. berg, M. Nilsson, and H. G. Kuhn. One of the most obvious benefits of physical education being a part of school curriculum is that it helps students develop good habits in other areas of their lives. Miller, K. E., M. J. Melnick, G. M. Barnes, M. P. Farrell, and D. Sabo. Conflict monitoring and cognitive control. Parental involvement and students academic achievement: A meta-analysis. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 9(1):58-65. Physical inactivity is a key determinant of health across the lifespan. 2009. Clinical Neurophysiology 110(2):367-373. 2006. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 13(4):317-323. Explaining the relationship between sports participation and achievement. average in performance as baseline data, and the use of norm-referenced rather than criterion-based testing. Van Dusen, D. P., S. H. Kelder, H. W. Kohl III, N. Ranjit, and C. L. Perry. Copyright 2023 National Academy of Sciences. exercise that involved exergaming (OLeary et al., 2011). Sociology of Education 123-146. National Association of Secondary School Principals Bulletin 86:34-42. Although these data are correlational, they provide a basis for further study using other neuroimaging tools (e.g., MRI, fMRI), as well as a rationale for the design and implementation of randomized controlled studies that would allow for causal interpretation of the relationship of adiposity to cognitive and brain health. Standardized tests, although necessary to gauge knowledge, may not be the most sensitive measures for (the process of) learning. 2013. Psychological Science 14(2):125-130. Trudeau, F., L. Laurencelle, J. Tremblay, M. Rajic, and R. Shephard. Examining the impact of integrating physical activity on fluid intelligence and academic performance in an elementary school setting: A preliminary investigation. It is recommended that every child have 20 minutes of recess each day and that this time be outdoors whenever possible, in a safe activity (NASPE. Physical activity and performance at school: A systematic review of the literature including a methodological quality assessment. To date, few randomized controlled interventions have been conducted. Credit: pinimg.com Physical education courses offer a number of benefits to students. Journal of the American Dietetic Association 96(9):906. Collectively, the findings across the body of literature in this area suggest that increases in aerobic fitness, derived from physical activity, are related to improvements in the integrity of brain structure and function that underlie academic performance. Available evidence suggests that mathematics and reading are the academic topics that are most influenced by physical activity. 1999. That is, Chaddock and colleagues (2012) observed increased activation in prefrontal and parietal brain regions during early task blocks and decreased activation during later task blocks in higher-fit relative to lower-fit children. Fedewa, A. L., and S. Ahn. 2010. 2011. Preventive Medicine 52(Suppl):S43-S50. Neuroscience 159(3):1044. Blair, C., P. D. Zelazo, and M. T. Greenberg. Fredericks, C. R., S. J. Kokot, and S. Krog. Developmental Neuropsychology 28(2):561-571. Jones, J. G., and L. Hardy. P3 latency: A new metric of information processing. Pp. Sanders, A. Further, children in the Take 10! Notably, Davis and colleagues (2011) conducted one such intervention lasting approximately 14 weeks that randomized 20 sedentary overweight preadolescent children into an after-school physical activity intervention or a nonactivity control group. in the classroom engaged in moderate to vigorous physical activity (6.16 to 6.42 METs) and had lower BMIs than those who did not. Gunstad, J., M. B. Spitznagel, R. H. Paul, R. A. Cohen, M. Kohn, F. S. Luyster, R. Clark, L. M. Williams, and E. Gordon. A neuroimaging investigation of the association between aerobic fitness, hippocampal volume, and memory performance in preadolescent children. 2003. Basal ganglia volume is associated with aerobic fitness in preadolescent children. It is often elicited by errors of commission during task performance and is believed to represent either the detection of errors during task performance (Gehring et al., 1993; Holroyd and Coles, 2002) or more generally the detection of response conflict (Botvinick et al., 2001; Yeung et al., 2004), which may be engendered by errors in response production. This relationship may have been attributed to a lower baseline level of fitness for female students, which shows that the girls may have had more to gain from . Datar, A., and R. Sturm. A survey of physical education programs and policies in Texas schools. Page, R. M., J. Hammermeister, A. Scanlan, and L. Gilbert. Their findings indicate that academic performance was unaffected by enrollment in physical education classes, which were found to average only 19 minutes of vigorous- or moderate-intensity physical activity. Relationship of nutrition and physical activity behaviors and fitness measures to academic performance for sixth graders in a Midwest city school district. Changes in academic achievement, fitness, and blood screening were considered secondary outcomes. In a study examining the effects of daily physical education during elementary school on physical activity during adulthood, 720 men and women completed the Qubec Health Survey (Trudeau et al., 1999). Others have found, however, that coordinative exercise (Budde et al., 2008) or bouts of vigorous physical activity during free time (Coe et al., 2006) contribute to higher levels of academic performance. The neural basis of human error processing: Reinforcement learning, dopamine, and the error-related negativity. Socioeconomic status and academic achievement: A meta-analytic review of research. Mahar, M. T., S. K. Murphy, D. A. Rowe, J. Physical education programs vary all over the world. Neeper, S. A., F. Gomez-Pinilla, J. Choi, and C. Cotman. The spring lockdown last year reinforced that our students needed physical education (PE) now more than ever. Educational Psychology Review 20(2):111-131. Effects of Regular Engagement in Physical Activity and Physical Fitness on Brain Structure. 2010. Normal aging results in the loss of brain tissue (Colcombe et al., 2003), with markedly larger loss evidenced in the frontal, temporal, and parietal regions (Raz, 2000). Washington, DC: National Academy Press. The findings of most of these reviews align with the conclusions presented in a meta-analytic review conducted by Fedewa and Ahn (2011). 1998. Despite the promising findings described in this chapter, it should be noted that the study of the relationship of childhood physical activity, aerobic fitness, and adiposity to cognitive and brain health and academic performance is in its early stages. Journal of School Health 74(10):397-400. 1. Muscle strength and flexibility showed no relationship, while an inverse association of BMI with test performance was observed, such that higher BMI was associated with lower test performance. Cotman, C. W., N. C. Berchtold, and L.-A. These findings were later replicated and extended to demonstrate benefits for both mathematics and reading performance in healthy children and those diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (Pontifex et al., 2013). Switch between the Original Pages, where you can read the report as it appeared in print, and Text Pages for the web version, where you can highlight and search the text. Exercise training increases size of hippo-campus and improves memory. 2008. Physically active academic lessons in elementary children. Psychophysiology 18:207-215. 1997. This chapter reviews the findings of recent research regarding the contribution of engagement in physical activity and the attainment of a health-enhancing level of physical fitness to cognitive and brain health in children. Chomitz, V. R., M. M. Slining, R. J. McGowan, S. E. Mitchell, G. F. Dawson, and K. A. Hacker. Organized group activity as a protective factor against adolescent substance use. She also teaches undergraduate courses and supervises student teachers. Running increases cell proliferation and neurogenesis in the adult mouse dentate gyrus. Content Standards All of the state content standards, including physical education. Participation in physical activity was related to cognitive performance in eight measurement categories (perceptual skills, IQ, achievement, verbal tests, mathematics tests, memory, developmental level/academic readiness, and other), with results indicating a beneficial relationship of physical activity to all cognitive outcomes except memory (Sibley and Etnier, 2003). Donnelly, J. E., J. L. Greene, C. A. Gibson, B. K. Smith, R. A. Washburn, D. K. Sullivan, K. DuBose, M. S. Mayo, K. H. Schmelzle, and J. J. Ryan. FIGURE 4-2 Effects of a single session of exercise in preadolescent children. In a second study, Colcombe and colleagues (2006) examined the effects of aerobic fitness training on brain structure using a randomized controlled design with 59 sedentary healthy adults aged 60-79. Jarrett, O. S., D. M. Maxwell, C. Dickerson, P. Hoge, G. Davies, and A. Yetley. Results indicated that gray and white matter brain volume increased for those who received the aerobic fitness training intervention. Journal of Psychology 103:287-288. Indeed, systematic observations of student behavior have been used as an alternative means of measuring academic performance (Mahar et al., 2006; Grieco et al., 2009). 2011. South African Journal for Research in Sport, Physical Education and Recreation 28(1):29-42. 2004. Required physical activity and academic grades: A controlled study. The adolescent brain. Firstly, it provides an opportunity to stay physically active, which is essential for a healthy lifestyle. 2011. A longitudinal examination of the link between youth physical fitness and academic achievement. Hippocampus 22(9):1876-1882. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 166(1):49-55. Physical education (PE) is a very important discipline since it helps on the development of students' cognitive abilities and motor skills, also affecting children's decisions and behavior about their own health (Chen et al., 2018; Ennis, 2007).Most of teaching and learning process regarding this discipline focus on a perspective of physical aptitude and motor learning . The researchers concluded that on-task behavior was better among the children who had recess. Further, after-school physical activity programs have demonstrated the ability to improve cardiovascular endurance, and this increase in aerobic fitness has been shown to mediate improvements in academic performance (Fredericks et al., 2006), as well as the allocation of neural resources underlying performance on a working memory task (Kamijo et al., 2011). Introduction. Pp. 2005. Research has shown that physical education programs can do a great deal to improve the lifestyle of children with special needs; they can increase competency in gross motor skills, help to control obesity, improve self-esteem and social skills, encourage an active lifestyle, and maintain motivation in various areas of life. Benefits of Physical Education. Hillman, C. H., R. W. Motl, M. B. Pontifex, D. Posthuma, J. H. Stubbe, D. I. Boomsma, and E. J. C. De Geus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101(9):3316-3321. Hillman, C. H., E. M. Snook, and G. J. Jerome. Tomporowski, P. D., C. L. Davis, P. H. Miller, and J. Brain Research 1358:172-183. New York: Guilford Press. Dexter, T. T. (1999). Although Baxter and colleagues (2011) confirmed the importance of attending school in relation to academic performance through the use of 4th-grade student recall, correlations with BMI were not significant. No significant differences by condition were found for mathematics testing; however, reading scores were significantly higher in the specialist condition relative to the control condition (Sallis et al., 1999), while language scores were significantly lower in the specialist condition than in the other two conditions. Vol. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport 70(2):127-134. Journal of Physical Activity and Health 7(3):343-351. 1999. Chaddock and colleagues (2010b) further observed that higher-fit children exhibited increased inhibitory control and response resolution and that higher basal ganglia volume was related to better task performance. Eveland-Sayers, B. M., R. S. Farley, D. K. Fuller, D. W. Morgan, and J. L. Caputo. Higher amounts of physical education were correlated with better academic performance in mathematics among females, but this finding did not hold true for males. The benefits of moderate-to-vigorous activity for memory retention and focus are paramount, and the positive interactions of social-emotional learning that occur during PE are critical for learning, particularly during stressful periods. Childhood overweight and academic performance: National study of kindergartners and first-graders. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Coe, D. P., J. M. Pivarnik, C. J. Womack, M. J. Reeves, and R. M. Malina. In sum, numerous cross-sectional and correlational studies demonstrate small-to-moderate positive or null associations between physical fitness (Grissom, 2005; Cottrell et al., 2007; Edwards et al., 2009; Eveland-Sayers et al., 2009; Cooper et al., 2010; Welk et al., 2010; Wittberg et al., 2010; Zhu et al., 2010; Van Dusen et al., 2011), particularly aerobic fitness, and academic performance (Castelli et al, 2007; Chomitz et al., 2008; Roberts et al., 2010; Welk et al., 2010; Chih and Chen, 2011; London and Castrechini, 2011; Van Dusen et al., 2011). Botvinick, M. M., T. S. Braver, D. M. Barch, C. S. Carter, and J. D. Cohen. Preventive Medicine 52(Suppl 1):S10-S20. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108(7):3017-3022. Biddle, S. J., and M. Asare. MacDonald, A. W., J. D. Cohen, V. A. Stenger, and C. S. Carter. Additionally, further consideration of age is warranted. Psychology of Sport and Exercise 10(1):19-24. Preface: Texas statewide assessment of youth fitness. 2004. For example, one exerts inhibitory control when one stops speaking when the teacher begins lecturing. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 31(1):111. These behaviors are observable and of concern to teachers as they detract from the learning environment. Chaddock, L., K. I. Erickson, R. S. Prakash, M. VanPatter, M. W. Voss, M. B. Pontifex, L. B. Raine, C. H. Hillman, and A. F. Kramer. 2010. Journal of School Health 71(7):313-324. Holroyd, C. B., and M. G. Coles. Obesity Reviews 13(1):43-56. 2011. Functional MRI (fMRI) measures, which make it possible to image activity in the brain while an individual is performing a cognitive task, have revealed that aerobic training induces changes in patterns of functional activation. No such effects were observed following a similar duration of quiet rest. Taken together, the above results suggest that obesity is associated with less effective neural processes during stimulus capture and response execution. Several studies have reported that higher-fit children exhibit smaller ERN amplitude during rapid-. The prevalence, health impact, and evidence of changeability all have resulted in calls for action to increase physical activity across the lifespan. This graphic explains how 60 minutes of daily moderate-to-vigorous physical activity can benefit a student's health and directly impact teachers and the community. Educating the Student Body: Taking Physical Activity and Physical Education to School. Further replications of these findings demonstrated that a single bout of moderate-intensity exercise using a treadmill improved performance on a task of attention and inhibition, but similar benefits were not derived from moderate-intensity. Review of Educational Research 75(3):417-453. Nature 400(6743):418-419. The association of health-related fitness with indicators of academic performance in Texas schools. The authors observed differential findings in the basal ganglia, a subcortical structure involved in the interplay of cognition and willed action. 2009. 2006. Daily primary school physical education: Effects on physical activity during adult life. Basch concludes that schools may be the only place where health inequities can be addressed and that, if childrens basic health needs are not met, they will struggle to learn regardless of the effectiveness of the instructional materials used. Journal of Pediatrics 162:543-551. http://www.equitycampaign.org/i/a/document/12557_EquityMattersVol6_Web03082010.pdf (accessed October 11, 2011). 1997. For children, classrooms are busy places where they must distinguish relevant information from distractions that emerge from many different sources occurring simultaneously. Journal of Pediatrics 157(6):917-922. Regular participation in physical activity also is a national learning standard for physical education, a standard intended to facilitate the establishment of habitual and meaningful engagement in physical activity (NASPE, 2004). 2003. Aerobic fitness is associated with hippocampal volume in elderly humans. Alerting, orienting, and executive attention: Developmental properties and sociodemographic correlates in an epidemiological sample of young, urban children. Among the 97 3rd-grade students in this study, a small but nonsignificant increase in on-task behaviors was seen immediately following these active lessons. Duncan-Johnson, C. C. 1981. Nutrition Reviews 54(4):S32-S36. When taught correctly, P.E. Unlike previous research, which demonstrated a steady decline in fitness by developmental stage (Duncan et al., 2007), this study found that cardiovascular fitness did decrease but not significantly (Van Dusen et al., 2011). 1994. the educational practice of providing music education and opportunities for physical activity to children. The effect of acute treadmill walking on cognitive control and academic achievement in preadolescent children. Dwyer, T., W. E. Coonan, D. R. Leitch, B. S. Hetzel, and R. Baghurst. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 39(2):371-376. Do gender and race matter? Aerobic fitness and executive control of relational memory in preadolescent children. Physical Benefits. You're looking at OpenBook, NAP.edu's online reading room since 1999. Indeed, data collected using a task-switching paradigm (i.e., a task designed to assess multitasking and requiring the scheduling of attention to multiple aspects of the environment) among 69 overweight and inactive children did not show differences in cognitive performance following acute bouts of treadmill walking or sitting (Tomporowski et al., 2008b). From a public health and policy standpoint, the conclusions these findings support are limited by few causal inferences, a lack of data confirmation, and inadequate reliability because the data were often collected by nonresearchers or through self-report methods. Kamijo, K., M. B. Pontifex, N. A. Khan, L. B. Raine, M. R. Scudder, E. S. Drollette, E. M. Evans, D. M. Castelli, and C. H. Hillman. 1999. Journal of Comparative Neurology 387(2):167-178. NASPE (National Association for Sport and Physical Education). 2004. 2010. Psychophysiology 33(6):747-752. These brain regions are important for cognition, as they have been implicated in the cognitive control of attention and memory processes. More important, teachers can offer physical activity breaks as part of a supplemental curriculum or simply as a way to reset student attention during a lesson (Kibbe et al., 2011; see Chapter 6) and when provided with minimal training can efficaciously produce vigorous or moderate energy expenditure in students (Stewart et al., 2004). Aerobic exercise training increases brain volume in aging humans. Tracking of physical activity from childhood to adulthood. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport 81(Suppl 2):42S-52S. Reprinted with permission. Physical education helps develop confidence and boost self-esteem. A., and J. L. Etnier. ing task conditions requiring the upregulation of control. Examples of neural plasticity in response to unique environmental interaction have been demonstrated in human neuroimaging studies of participation in music (Elbert et al., 1995; Chan et al., 1998; Mnte et al., 2001) and sports (Hatfield and Hillman, 2001; Aglioti et al., 2008), thus supporting. Skill and motor skills development. Human Brain Mapping 31(3):353-364. Creating an inclusive culture for physical education and physical activity helps all students learn to lead a healthy and active lifestyle. Such findings are not surprising given the role of the dorsal striatum in cognitive control and response resolution (Casey et al., 2008; Aron et al., 2009), as well as the growing body. Specifically, 124 older adults aged 60 and 75 were randomly assigned to a 6-month intervention of either walking (i.e., aerobic training) or flexibility (i.e., nonaerobic) training. Childhood overweight and elementary school outcomes. 2011. 1997. 2006. An assessment of the effects of two physical activity programmes on coronary heart disease risk factors in primary school children. Specifically, they examined the individual contributions of aerobic capacity, muscle strength, muscle flexibility, and body composition to performance in mathematics and reading on the Illinois Standardized Achievement Test among a sample of 259 children. Fan, X., and Chen, M. (2001). Early research in South Australia focused on quantifying the benefits of physical activity and physical education during the school day; the benefits noted included increased physical fitness, decreased body fat, and reduced risk for cardiovascular disease (Dwyer et al., 1979, 1983). Results indicated that fitness (study 1) and fitness training (study 2) were related to greater activation in the middle frontal gyrus and superior parietal cortex; these regions of the brain are involved in attentional control and inhibitory functioning, processes entailed in the regulation of attention and action. A., D. A. Dennison, H. W. Kohl III, and J. 1996. Action anticipation and motor resonance in elite basketball players. Race, cultural capital, and the educational effects of participation in sports. Colcombe, S. J., K. I. Erickson, P. E. Scalf, J. S. Kim, R. Prakash, E. McAuley, S. Elavsky, D. X. Marquez, L. Hu, and A. F. Kramer. 2006. Academic and health-related trajectories in high school: The intersection of gender and athletics. Here are just a few of the benefits you'll see develop in your child as they do more physical activity and sports. 2010. B. Journal of Curriculum Studies 35(6):721-734. The effects of aerobic activity on brain structure. Pellegrini, A. D., P. D. Huberty, and I. Jones. Reductions in the amount of tissue loss in these regions were observed as a function of fitness. The neural basis of error detection: Conflict monitoring and the error-related negativity. When physical activity is used as a break from academic learning time, postengagement effects include better attention (Grieco et al., 2009; Bartholomew and Jowers, 2011), increased on-task behaviors (Mahar et al., 2006), and improved academic performance (Donnelly and Lambourne, 2011). Thus, the strategy of reducing time spent in physical education to increase academic performance may not have the desired effect. American Journal of Human Biology 13(3):349-355. FIGURE 4-1 Information processing: Diagram of a simplified version of Sanderss (1983) cognitive-energetic model of human information processing (adapted from Jones and Hardy, 1989). In The handbook of research on sport psychology (2nd ed. in brain function and cognitive performance related to adiposity (however, see Gunstad et al., 2008, for an instance in which adiposity was unrelated to cognitive outcomes). Longitudinal studies such as those conducted in Sweden and Finland also suggest that physical education experiences may be related to adult engagement in physical activity (Glenmark, 1994; Telama et al., 1997). The effects of an afterschool physical activity program on working memory in preadolescent children. These included: recognizing the benefits of instilling life-long physical activity habits in children; the value of using systems thinking in improving physical activity and physical education in the school environment; the recognition of current disparities in opportunities and the need to achieve equity in physical activity and physical education; the importance of considering all types of school environments; the need to take into consideration the diversity of students as recommendations are developed. Aging of the brain and its impact on cognitive performance: Integration of structural and functional findings. Psychophysiology 21(2):171-186. When children participate in recess before lunch, additional benefits accrue, such as less food waste, increased incidence of appropriate behavior in the cafeteria during lunch, and greater student readiness to learn upon returning to the classroom after lunch (Getlinger et al., 1996; Wechsler et al., 2001). Developmental Science 14(5):1046-1058. They observed robust age-related decreases in tissue density in the frontal, temporal, and parietal regions using voxel-based morphometry, a technique used to assess brain volume. The measurement of executive function in early childhood. Clinical Neurophysiology 122(8):1518-1525. Given the focus of this chapter on childhood cognition, it should be noted that this section has provided only a brief and arguably narrow look at the research on physical activity and cognitive aging. 1994. Reprinted with permission. Etnier, J. L., P. M. Nowell, D. M. Landers, and B. Journal of Sports Sciences 17(4):283-295. 1988. More recently, reviews have attempted to describe the effects of an acute or single bout of physical activity, as a behavior, on academic performance. Chaddock, L., K. I. Erickson, R. S. Prakash, J. S. Kim, M. W. Voss, M. VanPatter, M. B. Pontifex, L. B. Raine, A. Konkel, and C. H. Hillman. Exercise and physical activity are good for just about everyone, including older adults. Child Development, Brain Structure, and Function, Certain aspects of development have been linked with experience, indicating an intricate interplay between genetic programming and environmental influences. Trudeau, F., and R. J. Shephard. The applications of such empirical findings within the school setting remain unclear. International Journal of Obesity 30(9):1449-1460. 1. Several studies (Hillman et al., 2005, 2009; Pontifex et al., 2011) have examined the P3 component of the stimulus-locked ERP and demonstrated that higher-fit children have larger-amplitude and shorter-latency ERPs relative to their lower-fit peers. Regardless of the strength of the findings, the literature indicates that time spent engaged in physical activity is beneficial to children because it has not been found to detract from academic performance, and in fact can improve overall health and function (Sallis et al., 1999; Hillman et al., 2008; Tomporowski et al., 2008a; Trudeau and Shephard, 2008; Rasberry et al., 2011). Reston, VA: NASPE. doi: 10.17226/18314. 2012. Hillman and colleagues (2009) demonstrated that a single bout of moderate-intensity walking (60 percent of maximum heart rate) resulted in significant improvements in performance on a task requiring attentional inhibition (e.g., the ability to focus on a single task). 2006. 70-95. American Journal of Health Behavior 24(2):108-113. THE DEVELOPING bRAIN, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, AND BRAIN HEALTH, The study of brain health has grown beyond simply measuring behavioral outcomes such as task performance and reaction time (e.g., cognitive. Moreover, the findings may support a dose-response association, suggesting that the more components of physical fitness (e.g., cardiovascular endurance, strength, muscle endurance) considered acceptable for the specific age and gender that are present, the greater the likelihood of successful academic performance. 2007. Davidson, M. C., D. Amso, L. C. Anderson, and A. Diamond. To date, in fact, only two randomized controlled trials (Davis et al., 2011; Kamijo et al., 2011) on this relationship have been published. The negative association of childhood obesity to the cognitive control of action monitoring. Longitudinal follow-up investigating the long-term benefits of enhanced physical education experiences is encouraging but largely inconclusive. Physical Activity Across the Curriculum (PAAC): A randomized controlled trial to promote physical activity and diminish overweight and obesity in elementary school children. Women, sports, and science: Do female athletes have an advantage? 2012. That is, aerobic fitness training has also been observed to induce changes in patterns of functional activation. American Journal of Health Education 41(5):284-291. NASPE. However, this approach has yielded little understanding of how the physical activitycognition relationship may change throughout the course of maturation. Kamijo, K., N. A. Khan, M. B. Pontifex, M. R. Scudder, E. S. Drollette, L. B. Raine, E. M. Evans, D. M. Castelli, and C. H. Hillman. Van Praag, H., G. Kempermann, and F. H. Gage. Journal of Educational Research 92(2):121-126. A. Sibley. In an experimental design, seven elementary schools were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: (1) a specialist condition in which certified physical education teachers delivered the SPARK curriculum, (2) a trained-teacher condition in which classroom teachers implemented the curriculum, and (3) a control condition in which classroom teachers implemented the local physical education curriculum. However, studies of adiposity and cognition have suggested that such a relationship may exist (see Datar and Sturm, 2006). Association of overweight with academic performance and social and behavioral problems: An update from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study. These studies compared healthy-weight and obese children and found a differential distribution of the P3 potential (i.e., less frontally distributed) and larger N2 amplitude, as well as smaller ERN magnitude, in obese children during task conditions that required greater amounts of inhibitory control (Kamijo et al., 2012c). Recently published reports describe the relationship between adiposity and cognitive and brain health to advance understanding of the basic cognitive processes and neural substrates that may underlie the adiposity-achievement relationship. 2007. A. Doyle. Basic cognitive functions related to attention and memory facilitate learning, and these functions are enhanced by physical activity and higher aerobic fitness. Specifically, Chaddock and colleagues (2010a) assigned 9- to 10-year-old preadolescent children to lower- and higher-fitness groups as a function of their scores on a maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) test, which is considered the gold-standard measure of aerobic fitness. 2009. Capitalizing on cortical plasticity: Influence of physical activity on cognition and brain function. 2012. International Journal of Sport and Society 2(1):65-73. FIGURE 4-4 Relationships between health indices and cognitive and brain health. Journal of Sports Sciences 7(1):41-63. Child Development 83(5):1822-1839. From an authentic and practical to a mechanistic perspective, physically active and aerobically fit children consistently outperform their inactive and unfit peers academically on both a short- and a long-term basis. 2001. intervention. Polich, J., and M. R. Heine. Ageing, fitness and neurocognitive function. Reviews focusing on research conducted in children (Sibley and Etnier, 2003) have examined the relationship among physical activity, participation in sports, and academic performance (Trudeau and Shephard, 2008, 2010; Singh et al., 2012); physical activity and mental and cognitive health (Biddle and Asare, 2011); and physical activity, nutrition, and academic performance (Burkhalter and Hillman, 2011). 1995. Diamond, A. Trudeau, F., and R. J. Shephard. [3] As part of this, health education is the teaching of information on the prevention, control, and treatment of diseases. Because research in older adults has served as a model for understanding the effects of physical activity and fitness on the developing brain during childhood, the adult research is briefly discussed. Wilkins, J., G. Graham, S. Parker, S. Westfall, R. Fraser, and M. Tembo. When students have the opportunity to step away from their desks and move their bodies in a physical education class, they gain the benefits of mental health support, stress relief, heart health, and more. Such an approach often is necessary because of maturation and the need to develop comprehensive assessment tools that suit the various stages of development. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23(6):1332-1345. Emerging literature has suggested that in terms of mortality, the global population health burden of physical inactivity approaches that of cigarette smoking. Physical education can help support wellness and mental health, including stress, anxiety and depression. Aerobic fitness reduces brain tissue loss in aging humans. 00:00 00:00 An unknown error has occurred Brought to you by Livestrong Educational Psychology Review 13(1):1-22. The number of peer-reviewed publications on this topic is growing exponentially. Duncan, S. C., T. E. Duncan, L. A. Strycker, and N. R. Chaumeton. These findings were accompanied by changes in neuroelectric measures underlying the allocation of attention (see Figure 4-2) and significant improvements on the reading subtest of the Wide Range Achievement Test. Bolstered by findings in adult populations (e.g., Debette et al., 2010; Raji et al., 2010; Carnell et al., 2011), researchers have begun to publish data on preadolescent populations indicating differences. Improved physical fitness. These processes allow for the optimization of behavioral interactions within the environment through flexible modulation of the ability to control attention (MacDonald et al., 2000; Botvinick et al., 2001). Future research will need to do a better job of translating promising laboratory findings to the real world to determine the value of this relationship in ecologically valid settings. For discussion of the underlying constructs and differential effects of single bouts of physical activity on cognitive performance, see Tomporowski (2003). Mechanic, D., and S. Hansell. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 38(12):2086. 2002. Specifically, those assigned to the aerobic training intervention demonstrated increased gray matter in the frontal lobes, including the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, the supplementary motor area, the middle frontal gyrus, the dorsolateral region of the right inferior frontal gyrus, and the left superior temporal lobe. It was also found that such benefits were derived following cessation of, but not during, the bout of exercise (Drollette et al., 2012). 2011. Physical education, school physical activity, school sports and academic performance. Neuropsychologia 44(11):2037. Sociological Spectrum 25(2):177-195. Boys and girls weight status and math performance from kindergarten entry through fifth grade: A mediated analysis. First, when referring to personal and social development, different terms are used interchangeably to describe similar concepts. Alternatively, higher-fit children allocate greater resources to environmental stimuli and demonstrate less reliance on action monitoring (increasing resource allocation only to meet the demands of the task). Further, it is unclear whether policies required students to have higher GPAs to be eligible for participation. Physical activity and exercises are supposed to reduce the risk of several chronic diseases (e.g., cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, hypertension, obesity, depression and osteoporosis). 1977. It may also be noted that this research includes no known longitudinal studies and few randomized controlled trials (examples are included later in this chapter in the discussion of the developing brain). Content standards were designed to encourage the highest achievement of every student, by defining the knowledge, concepts, and skills that students should acquire at each grade level. Pp. Exercise builds brain health: Key roles of growth factor cascades and inflammation. Stephens, L. J., and L. A. Schaben. PE is much more than just exercise! Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology/Evoked Potentials Section 104(3):244-256. Stewart, J. Obesity Research 12(1):58-68. Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 58(2):M176-M180. Davis, C. L., P. D. Tomporowski, J. E. McDowell, B. P. Austin, P. H. Miller, N. E. Yanasak, J. D. Allison, and J. Despite the current focus on the relationship of physical activity to cognitive development, the evidence base is larger on the association of physical activity with brain health and cognition during aging. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag. Positive results from public school children in the northeastern United States. class can produce positive effects on students' health, behavior, and academic performance. Further, several differences emerged across various brain regions that together make up the network associated with cognitive control. Fit and vigilant: The relationship between sedentary behavior and failures in sustained attention during preadolescence. Aglioti, S. M., P. Cesari, M. Romani, and C. Urgesi. A cohort-sequential latent growth model of physical activity from ages 12 to 17 years. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1124(1):111-126. 15-26. Accordingly, although more research is needed, the authors suggest that the acute effects of exercise may be selective to certain cognitive processes (i.e., attentional inhibition) while unrelated to others (e.g., working memory). Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 43(2):344. Results indicate that children who had at least 15 minutes of recess were more likely to exhibit appropriate behavior in the classroom (Barros et al., 2009). Based on feedback from you, our users, we've made some improvements that make it easier than ever to read thousands of publications on our website. Development of cognitive control and executive functions from 4 to 13 years: Evidence from manipulations of memory, inhibition, and task switching. Trends in Neurosciences 30(9):464-472. The Evidence Base on the Relationship of Physical Activity to Brain Health and Cognition in Older Adults. Under more demanding task conditions, the strategy of lower-fit children appears to fail since they perform more poorly under conditions requiring the upregulation of cognitive control. Personalized stories that cast them as their favorite hero may motivate them to persevere. 2010. Aerobic fitness, then, may be important to academic performance, as there may be a dose-response relationship (Van Dusen et al., 2011). But, what about the hidden benefits? Exercise improves executive function and achievement and alters brain activation in overweight children: A randomized, controlled trial. Specifically, higher-fit children allocate greater resources to a given task and demonstrate less reliance on environmental cues or teacher prompting. As grade-level expectations go up, time for "free play" goes down, even at the youngest grades. Cognitive which is believed to be a key reason why they are able to report differentiated effects of different intensities. 1999. Hillman, C. H., K. I. Erickson, and A. F. Kramer. Gabbard, C., and J. Barton. Physical Activity, Fitness, and Physical Education: Effects on Academic Performance. In Lifespan cognition: Mechanisms of change, edited by E. Bialystok and F. I. M. Craik. Perceptual and Motor Skills 91(2):531-534. Yet little evidence supports the notion that more time allocated to subject matter will translate into better test scores. 2000. Some have expressed concern that introducing physical activity into the classroom setting may be distracting to students. All rights reserved. Physically active academic lessons and time on task: The moderating effect of body mass index. Physical fitness and academic achievement in elementary school children. The authors found that higher BMI and greater amounts of fat mass (particularly in the midsection) were related to poorer performance on cognitive control tasks involving inhibition, as well as lower academic achievement. 2012. SOURCE: Cotman et al., 2007. Elbert, T., C. Pantev, C. Wienbruch, B. Rockstroh, and E. Taub. One of the five benefits of physical education for student learning is that it improves their concentration and behavior. 2007. Physical activity in childhood and adolescence as predictor of physical activity in young adulthood. 2 Status and Trends of Physical Activity Behaviors and Related School Policies, 4 Physical Activity, Fitness, and Physical Education: Effects on Academic Performance, 6 Approaches to Physical Activity in Schools, 7 The Effectiveness of Physical Activity and Physical Education Policies and Programs: Summary of the Evidence, Appendix C: State Legislative Policies on Physical Education and Physical Activity, Appendix D: Workshop and Panel Public Sessions, Appendix E: Committee Member Biographical Sketches. Depression has also shown to be responsive to physical activity. Telama, R., X. Yang, L. Laakso, and J. Viikari. The ERN component is observed in response-locked ERP averages. Hatfield, B. D., and C. H. Hillman. Making PE More Enjoyable for Students With Physical Disabilities For many of these students, physical education activities can be difficult. Journal Information 94(9):1501-1509. Yet single bouts. 2007. Journal of School Health 81(7):417-423. The studies reviewed by Fedewa and Ahn include experimental/quasi-experimental as well as cross-sectional and correlational designs, with the experimental designs yielding the highest effect sizes. Cognitive control, or executive control, is involved in the selection, scheduling, and coordination of computational processes underlying perception, memory, and goal-directed action. Donchin, E., and M. G. H. Coles. The relation of adiposity to cognitive control and scholastic achievement in preadolescent children. Reed, J. P3 latency generally is considered to represent stimulus evaluation and classification speed (Kutas et al., 1977; Duncan-Johnson, 1981) and thus may be considered a measure of stimulus detection and evaluation time (Magliero et al., 1984; Ila and Polich, 1999). 2011. Studies of participation in sports and academic achievement have found positive associations (Mechanic and Hansell, 1987; Dexter, 1999; Crosnoe, 2002; Eitle and Eitle, 2002; Stephens and Schaben, 2002; Eitle, 2005; Miller et al., 2005; Fox et al., 2010; Ruiz et al., 2010); higher grade point averages (GPAs) in season than out of season (Silliker and Quirk, 1997); a negative association between cheerleading and science performance (Hanson and Kraus, 1998); and weak and negative associations between the amount of time spent participating in sports and performance in English-language class among 13-, 14-, and 16-year-old students (Daley and Ryan, 2000). Allowing students to get moving for about 60 minutes a day can do so much good for their health. Barros, R. M., E. J. Eitle, T. M. 2005. Fitness effects on the cognitive function of older adults a meta-analytic study. Frontiers in Psychology 3:1-9. Science 288(5472):1835-1838. Untangling the links among the athletic involvement, gender, race, and adolescent academic outcomes. Pesce, C., C. Crova, L. Cereatti, R. Casella, and M. Bellucci. View our suggested citation for this chapter. For example, one must shift attention from the teacher who is teaching a lesson to ones notes to write down information for later study. However, it remains unclear what portion of these effects can be attributed to a break from academic time and what portion is a direct result of the specific demands/characteristics of the physical activity. Basch, C. 2010. The impact of stand-biased desks in classrooms on calorie expenditure in children. Loss in aging humans and behavior K. Murphy, D. P., S. C., C. J.,! 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