Boost your brain, while having a break! The effects of long-term cognitively engaging physical activity breaks on children’s executive functions and academic achievement

Effects of physical activity on executive functions, attention and academic performance in preadolescent children: a meta-analysis

(2018) Johannes W. de Greeff et al.   JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN SPORT

The effect of acute cognitively engaging physical activity breaks on children's executive functions: Too much of a good thing?

(2018) Fabienne Egger et al.   PSYCHOLOGY OF SPORT AND EXERCISE

Effect of classroom-based physical activity interventions on academic and physical activity outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

(2017) Amanda Watson et al.   International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

Impact of Three Years of Classroom Physical Activity Bouts on Time-on-Task Behavior

(2017) AMANDA N. SZABO-REED et al.   MEDICINE AND SCIENCE IN SPORTS AND EXERCISE

Physical activity and academic achievement across the curriculum: Results from a 3-year cluster-randomized trial

(2017) Joseph E. Donnelly et al.   PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Acute Cognitively Engaging Exergame-Based Physical Activity Enhances Executive Functions in Adolescents

(2017) Valentin Benzing et al.   PLoS One

Disentangling the relationship between children’s motor ability, executive function and academic achievement

(2017) Mirko Schmidt et al.   PLoS One

Effects of Motor versus Cardiovascular Exercise Training on Children’s Working Memory

(2016) FLORA KOUTSANDRÉOU et al.   MEDICINE AND SCIENCE IN SPORTS AND EXERCISE

Motor Skills and Exercise Capacity Are Associated with Objective Measures of Cognitive Functions and Academic Performance in Preadolescent Children

(2016) Svend Sparre Geertsen et al.   PLoS One

Physically active vs. sedentary academic lessons: A dose response study for elementary student time on task

(2016) Lauren A. Grieco et al.   PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Conclusions about interventions, programs, and approaches for improving executive functions that appear justified and those that, despite much hype, do not

(2016) Adele Diamond et al.   Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Shifting the Focus from Quantitative to Qualitative Exercise Characteristics in Exercise and Cognition Research

(2016) Caterina Pesce   JOURNAL OF SPORT & EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY

Improving Academic Performance of School-Age Children by Physical Activity in the Classroom: 1-Year Program Evaluation

(2015) Marijke J. Mullender-Wijnsma et al.   JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH

Cognitively Engaging Chronic Physical Activity, but Not Aerobic Exercise, Affects Executive Functions in Primary School Children: A Group-Randomized Controlled Trial

(2015) Mirko Schmidt et al.   JOURNAL OF SPORT & EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY

Integrating movement in academic classrooms: understanding, applying and advancing the knowledge base

(2015) C. A. Webster et al.   Obesity Reviews

Implementing classroom physical activity breaks: Associations with student physical activity and classroom behavior

(2015) Jordan A. Carlson et al.   PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Acute Effects of Classroom Exercise Breaks on Executive Function and Math Performance: A Dose–Response Study

(2015) Erin K. Howie et al.   RESEARCH QUARTERLY FOR EXERCISE AND SPORT

The strength model of self-control revisited: Linking acute and chronic effects of exercise on executive functions

(2015) Michel Audiffren et al.   Journal of Sport and Health Science

Exercise and children's cognition: The role of exercise characteristics and a place for metacognition

(2015) Phillip D. Tomporowski et al.   Journal of Sport and Health Science

Modeling relationships between physical fitness, executive functioning, and academic achievement in primary school children

(2014) Anneke G. van der Niet et al.   PSYCHOLOGY OF SPORT AND EXERCISE

Physical activity and academic achievement across the curriculum (A + PAAC): rationale and design of a 3-year, cluster-randomized trial

(2013) Joseph E Donnelly et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

The relation between cognitive and motor performance and their relevance for children’s transition to school: A latent variable approach

(2013) Claudia M. Roebers et al.   HUMAN MOVEMENT SCIENCE

Cognitively challenging physical activity benefits executive function in overweight children

(2013) Claudia Crova et al.   JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCES

Executive Functions

(2012) Adele Diamond   Annual Review of Psychology

Motor coordination, working memory, and academic achievement in a normative adolescent sample: Testing a mediation model

(2012) D. Rigoli et al.   ARCHIVES OF CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

The effects of acute exercise on cognitive performance: A meta-analysis

(2012) Y.K. Chang et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Exercise improves executive function and achievement and alters brain activation in overweight children: A randomized, controlled trial.

(2011) Catherine L. Davis et al.   HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

Ten Years of TAKE 10!®: Integrating physical activity with academic concepts in elementary school classrooms

(2011) Debra L. Kibbe et al.   PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Interventions Shown to Aid Executive Function Development in Children 4 to 12 Years Old

(2011) A. Diamond et al.   SCIENCE

The contribution of executive functioning to academic achievement among male adolescents

(2009) Robert D. Latzman et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

Physical Activity Across the Curriculum (PAAC): A randomized controlled trial to promote physical activity and diminish overweight and obesity in elementary school children

(2009) Joseph E. Donnelly et al.   PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

The Selection and Design of Control Conditions for Randomized Controlled Trials of Psychological Interventions

(2009) David C. Mohr et al.   PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOSOMATICS

Short-Term Memory, Working Memory, and Executive Functioning in Preschoolers: Longitudinal Predictors of Mathematical Achievement at Age 7 Years

(2008) Rebecca Bull et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

Neurogenesis and Exercise: Past and Future Directions

(2008) Henriette van Praag   NEUROMOLECULAR MEDICINE

Researching health inequalities in adolescents: The development of the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) Family Affluence Scale

(2008) Candace Currie et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE