According to a new study, teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 18 who regularly engage in moderate to strenuous exercise have superior attentional control.
University of Illinois, cited
According to a recent study, adolescent females who regularly engage in more strenuous and moderate physical activity have superior attentional control. The study's target population was males and females between the ages of 15 and 18.
The Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports has more information on the findings.
"A feature of inhibitory control is intentional control. Dominika Pindus, a professor of kinesiology and community health at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, led the study. "We can think of inhibitory control as our ability to control attention when distracted, and our ability to control acting on an impulse. Research has revealed that inhibitory control.
“Studies have found that inhibitory control is related to better academic achievement.”
Better inhibitory control has also been linked to "better finances, better health, and a lower risk of being convicted of a crime," according to earlier research, Pindus added.
Pindus and her colleagues investigated potential sex differences in the link between physical exercise and cognition using baseline data from a randomised controlled experiment of high school students in New South Wales, Australia. The initial investigation was conducted by co-author David Lubans of the University of Newcastle in New South Wales.
Measures of daily physical activity volume and intensity were measured by accelerometers worn on the wrist for up to seven days as part of the data gathered for that study.
The continuous indication of movement's strength is what we obtain from this instrument, which records changes in acceleration, according to Pindus.
The participants also took part in cognitive computing exercises. "For this study, we concentrated on participant response time variability across trials. This measure aids in our comprehension of the effectiveness of improved attentional regulation, according to Pindus.
According to Pindus, older teenagers execute on attentional control tests as accurately and quickly as adults do.
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Exercise Intensity Linked to Attentional Control in Late-Adolescent Girls
FeaturedNeuroscience·February 6, 2023
Summary: Teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 18 who perform frequent moderate to vigorous exercise have better attentional control, a new study reports.
Source: University of Illinois
Adolescent girls who engage in more moderate and vigorous physical activity each day have better attentional control, a new study finds. The study focused on girls and boys aged 15-18.
The findings are detailed in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports.
“Attentional control is an aspect of inhibitory control. We can think of inhibitory control as our ability to control attention when distracted, and our ability to control acting on an impulse,” said University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign kinesiology and community health professor Dominika Pindus, who led the study. “Studies have found that inhibitory control is related to better academic achievement.”
Previous studies also have found that better inhibitory control is associated with “having better finances, having better health and less chances of being convicted of a crime,” Pindus said.
Pindus and her colleagues used baseline data from a randomized controlled trial of high school students in New South Wales, Australia, to explore potential sex differences in the relationship between physical activity and cognition. Study co-author David Lubans of the University of Newcastle in NSW led the original study.
The data collected in that research included measures of daily physical activity volume and intensity as recorded by accelerometers worn on the wrist for up to seven days.
“This device records changes in acceleration, and what we get is a continuous signal of the intensity of movement,” Pindus said.
The participants also engaged in computerized cognitive tasks. “For this study, we focused on the variability of participants’ response times across trials. This measure helps us understand the efficiency of higher attentional control,” Pindus said.
Older adolescents’ accuracy and speed are comparable to adults’ performance on the attentional control tasks, Pindus said.
Exercise Intensity in Late-Adolescent Girls Is Associated with Attentional Control Featured the sixth of February 2023
Summary: According to a recent study, teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 18 who regularly engage in moderate to strenuous exercise have superior attentional control.
University of Illinois, cited
According to a recent study, adolescent females who regularly engage in more strenuous and moderate physical activity have superior attentional control. The study's target population was males and females between the ages of 15 and 18.
The Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports has more information on the findings.
"A feature of inhibitory control is intentional control. According to kinesiology and community studies professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, "we can think of inhibitory control as our capacity to control attention when distracted and our capacity to control acting on an impulse."