Exercise and Cognitive Function Studies

The following studies, ranging from 2006 to 2011, examine the relationship between exercise and cognitive function. Enjoy!

Exercise is linked to cognitive function

• A 30-minute physical education program improves students’ executive function (2009)

• A neuroimaging investigation of the association between aerobic fitness, hippocampal volume, and memory performance in preadolescent children (2010)

• Low aerobic fitness and obesity are associated with lower standardized test scores in children (2010)

• Physical fitness and academic achievement in third- and fifth-graders (2007)

• Exercise improves executive function and achievement and alters brain activation in overweight children (2011)

• Physical activity and cognitive function in a cross-section of younger and older community-dwelling individuals (2006)

• Exercise improves memory acquisition and retrieval in the Y-maze task: relationship with hippocampal neurogenesis (2007)

• Is there a relationship between physical fitness and academic achievement? positive results from public school children in the northeastern united states (2008)

• Cardiovascular fitness is associated with cognition in young adulthood (2009)