Effects of Exercise on Executive Functions in Korean Preschool Children (운동이 유아의 실행기능에 미치는 영향)

강인선; Hyeon Jin Lee (이현진)

Effects of Exercise on Executive Functions in Korean Preschool Children

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2015, 28(3), pp.209-226
Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

강인선 ¹, Hyeon Jin Lee ¹

¹영남대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study examined the effects of physical exercise on children’s executive functions. Fifty one 3-year- old, 53 4-year-old, and 53 5-year-old children participated in the study. The children in each age group were divided into two groups, i.e., a physical exercise group and a non-physical exercise group. Children in the physical exercise group participated in the football game or Taekwondo after school and children in the non-physical exercise group participated in a violin lesson or an English lesson after school. Three components of executive functions were measured by 6 tasks. Inhibitory control was measured by a flag task and 3 types of flanker tasks. Switching was measured by a card-sorting task and children’s color trail task. Working memory was measured by a backward-word task and a backward-number task. The executive functions were measured before these lessons began, and again after the lessons ended. The results indicated that the overall performance on executive functions improved much higher in the physical exercise group than in the non-physical exercise group. It means that physical exercise plays an important role in executive functions. There was also a significant age effect, showing a big difference between 3- and 4-year-olds. It implies that the physical exercise effect might vary depending on the age level.

KEYWORDS

exercise, executive function, inhibitory control, working memory, switching

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