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Relations between gross motor skills and executive functions, controlling for the role of information processing and lapses of attention in 8-10 year old children
This study aimed to systematically investigate the relation between gross motor skills and aspects of executive functioning (i.e. verbal working memory, visuospatial working memory, response inhibition and interference control) in 8–10 year old children. Additionally, the role of information process...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6812776/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31648263 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224219 |
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author | van der Fels, Irene M. J. Smith, Joanne de Bruijn, Anne G. M. Bosker, Roel J. Königs, Marsh Oosterlaan, Jaap Visscher, Chris Hartman, Esther |
author_facet | van der Fels, Irene M. J. Smith, Joanne de Bruijn, Anne G. M. Bosker, Roel J. Königs, Marsh Oosterlaan, Jaap Visscher, Chris Hartman, Esther |
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description | This study aimed to systematically investigate the relation between gross motor skills and aspects of executive functioning (i.e. verbal working memory, visuospatial working memory, response inhibition and interference control) in 8–10 year old children. Additionally, the role of information processing (speed and variability) and lapses of attention in the relation between gross motor skills and executive functions was investigated. Data of 732 Dutch children from grade 3 and 4 were analyzed (50.0% boys, 50.4% grade 3, age = 9.16 ± 0.64 years). Gross motor skills were assessed using three items of the Körper Koordinationstest für Kinder and one item of the Bruininks-Oseretsky test of Motor Proficiency, Second Edition. Executive functions were assessed using the Wechsler Digit Span task (verbal working memory), the Visuospatial Memory task (visuospatial working memory), the Stop Signal task (response inhibition) and a modified version of the Flanker task (interference control). Information processing and lapses of attention were obtained by applying an ex-Gaussian analysis on go trials of the Stop Signal task. Multilevel regression analysis showed that gross motor skills were significantly related to verbal working memory, visuospatial working memory and response inhibition, but not to interference control. Lapses of attention was a significant predictor for all executive functions, whereas processing speed was not. Variability in processing speed was only predictive for visuospatial working memory. After controlling for information processing and lapses of attention, gross motor skills were only significantly related to visuospatial working memory and response inhibition. The results suggest that after controlling for information processing and lapses of attention, gross motor skills are related to aspects of executive functions that are most directly involved in, and share common underlying processes with, gross motor skills. |
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spelling | pubmed-68127762019-11-03 Relations between gross motor skills and executive functions, controlling for the role of information processing and lapses of attention in 8-10 year old children van der Fels, Irene M. J. Smith, Joanne de Bruijn, Anne G. M. Bosker, Roel J. Königs, Marsh Oosterlaan, Jaap Visscher, Chris Hartman, Esther PLoS One Research Article This study aimed to systematically investigate the relation between gross motor skills and aspects of executive functioning (i.e. verbal working memory, visuospatial working memory, response inhibition and interference control) in 8–10 year old children. Additionally, the role of information processing (speed and variability) and lapses of attention in the relation between gross motor skills and executive functions was investigated. Data of 732 Dutch children from grade 3 and 4 were analyzed (50.0% boys, 50.4% grade 3, age = 9.16 ± 0.64 years). Gross motor skills were assessed using three items of the Körper Koordinationstest für Kinder and one item of the Bruininks-Oseretsky test of Motor Proficiency, Second Edition. Executive functions were assessed using the Wechsler Digit Span task (verbal working memory), the Visuospatial Memory task (visuospatial working memory), the Stop Signal task (response inhibition) and a modified version of the Flanker task (interference control). Information processing and lapses of attention were obtained by applying an ex-Gaussian analysis on go trials of the Stop Signal task. Multilevel regression analysis showed that gross motor skills were significantly related to verbal working memory, visuospatial working memory and response inhibition, but not to interference control. Lapses of attention was a significant predictor for all executive functions, whereas processing speed was not. Variability in processing speed was only predictive for visuospatial working memory. After controlling for information processing and lapses of attention, gross motor skills were only significantly related to visuospatial working memory and response inhibition. The results suggest that after controlling for information processing and lapses of attention, gross motor skills are related to aspects of executive functions that are most directly involved in, and share common underlying processes with, gross motor skills. Public Library of Science 2019-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6812776/ /pubmed/31648263 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224219 Text en © 2019 van der Fels et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article van der Fels, Irene M. J. Smith, Joanne de Bruijn, Anne G. M. Bosker, Roel J. Königs, Marsh Oosterlaan, Jaap Visscher, Chris Hartman, Esther Relations between gross motor skills and executive functions, controlling for the role of information processing and lapses of attention in 8-10 year old children |
title | Relations between gross motor skills and executive functions, controlling for the role of information processing and lapses of attention in 8-10 year old children |
title_full | Relations between gross motor skills and executive functions, controlling for the role of information processing and lapses of attention in 8-10 year old children |
title_fullStr | Relations between gross motor skills and executive functions, controlling for the role of information processing and lapses of attention in 8-10 year old children |
title_full_unstemmed | Relations between gross motor skills and executive functions, controlling for the role of information processing and lapses of attention in 8-10 year old children |
title_short | Relations between gross motor skills and executive functions, controlling for the role of information processing and lapses of attention in 8-10 year old children |
title_sort | relations between gross motor skills and executive functions, controlling for the role of information processing and lapses of attention in 8-10 year old children |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6812776/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31648263 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224219 |
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