Sport improves attention in children
Exercising is advisable for the health of body and mind of children. Playing basketball or soccer, swimming, gymnastics or dance … No matter what type of activity is. More and more studies show that the practice of sport is beneficial to health. According to research by University of Sciences Institute of Physical Education and Sport of the Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Martir (UCV), continuous and systematic practice of sports physical activity helps children get better care: increased performance Cognitive up to 25%.
The smaller body is in continuous training and grows very quickly. Playing sports increases your motor development, promotes flexibility and balance and, as in the rest of the population, avoid sedentary lifestyle . But its benefits do not end there. Researchers at the Institute of Science of Physical Activity and Sport of the Catholic University of Valencia San Vicente Martir (UCV) said after the results of a study population of children between 10 and 12 years, improves cognitive performance between 15% and 25%.
For that study, the researchers analyzed the sport and attentional performance of children in public school and the School Valencia Soccer Valencia Football Club (FC). The children of Valencia CF performed three planned training 90 minutes three days a week and playing a weekly game. Also, workouts were supervised by licensed technicians in sports and physical education. Instead, the group of Valencian public school sports or physical activity physical education classes for less than 5 hours a week.
Those who played sports groups were 25% higher in the task of differentiating stimuli compared with those who exercised individually.
All different experimental tasks performed (with a series of visual stimuli) in which it was noted response times and precision in their responses. Thus, we attempted to measure and analyze three attentional functions: alertness (related to the ability to be stimulated with novel sound stimuli), the attentional orientation (related to the ability of distraction for children with task-irrelevant stimuli principal) and the resolution of conflicts (related to strategic thinking and response selection).