People who are physically active during childhood have higher cognitive functions in later life. Participants who exercised when they were children did better on cognitive tests regardless of their ...

Cognitive functions, also known as intellectual functions, encompass thinking, understanding, memory, language, computation, and judgment, and are performed in the cerebrum. The prefrontal cortex (PFC ...

There may be an association between physical fitness and brain volume in children, a new study from researchers in Spain suggests. The researchers recruited over 101 overweight and obese children from ...

A large Japanese cohort study suggests that exercise before and during pregnancy may support early brain development, ...

Executive function skills are a set of inter-related processes that support attention, self-control, and goal-directed ...

This recently published study may have found a link between exercise during pregnancy and infant development.