The Association of Childhood Fitness to Proactive and Reactive Action Monitoring.

ABSTRACT: Several studies have claimed that the positive association between childhood fitness and cognitive control is attributable to differences in the child's cognitive control strategy, which can involve either proactive or reactive control. The present study tested this hypothesis by manipulating the probability of trial types during a modified flanker task. Preadolescent children performed mostly congruent and mostly incongruent conditions of the flanker task, with post-error task performance and error negativity/error-related negativity (Ne/ERN) being assessed. Results indicated that greater aerobic fitness was related to greater post-error accuracy and larger Ne/ERN amplitudes in the mostly congruent condition. These findings suggest that higher-fit children might be able to transiently upr

SUBMITTER: Kamijo K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4777555 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature