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 ...

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 ...

What researchers found out that may surprise you.

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

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 ...

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

School-aged children born prematurely with bronchopulmonary dysplasia may have exercise-related limitations compared with ...