The Effect of Movement on Cognitive Performance

Abstract

The study examines the relationship between walking, cognitive, and academic skills. Students from elementary, middle, high school, and college were required to walk for 10 min prior to completing feature detection, Simon-type memory, and mathematical problem-solving tasks. Participants were counterbalanced to remove a time bias. Ten minutes of walking had a significant positive effect on Simon-type memory and critical feature-detection tasks among all age groups. Separately, with mathematical problem-solving ability, higher performing high-school students demonstrated significant positive effects on mathematical reasoning tasks based on the Bloom Taxonomy. However, poorly achieving high-school students performed significantly better than those with higher grades in mathematics on tests of mathematical problem-solving ability based on the Bloom’s Taxonomy. The study indicates that there is justification to employ relatively simple means to effect lifestyle, academic, and cognitive performance.

Improvements in Cognition and Educational Attainment as a Result of Integrating Music into Science Teaching in Elementary School

“…The main argument of most studies dealing with the effect of music on brain development [9][10][11][12][13] is that there are two important characteristics common to both language and music: both are used for communication; and, both have syntax with rules that dictate the correct combination of different components (the characters and words) [13,[15][16][17]. The findings of the various visualizations performed on the human brain indicate the existence of an area in the frontal lobe that allows the construction of syntax in music and language, while other parts of the brain address aspects related to verbal and musical processing [8].…”

“…The findings of the various visualizations performed on the human brain indicate the existence of an area in the frontal lobe that allows the construction of syntax in music and language, while other parts of the brain address aspects related to verbal and musical processing [8]. When an individual listens to music, other areas located outside the auditory cortex are usually involved in thinking processes [6,9,10,15,17]. The visual, tactile and emotional experiences that an individual experiences earlier in life affect the specific location in which the human brain processes music [7,13,[15][16][17].…”

Judamųjų ir pažintinių gebėjimų sąsajos

“…Aerobiniai krūviai pagerina vaikų rezultatus atliekant nuoseklios atminties testus, kuriems reikalinga pažintinė ir motorinė sąveika, ir atliekant funkcijų aptikimo testus, susijusius su dėmesingumu (Mualem et al, 2018). Taip pat yra nustatyta, kad aerobiniai krūviai gerina vyresnio amžiaus žmonių pažintinius gebėjimus (Voss et al, 2010).…”

Toward A Precision Era Of Neutrino Oscillation Physics: Liquid Argon Scintillation Detector Development for DUNE and Neutrino Oscillation Studies with NOvA

“…One spike of note is the structure in Period 5 (third grouping of points) in Figure A but an expert suggested these were probably red herrings [129]. Said expert also looked through a few monitoring plots and found no long-term trends [129]. However, the spike in Period 7 seems to correlate with a power trip at the FD on 9 February 2017 in which APDs were warmed.…”

“…However, the detector threshold settings have remained fairly constant over time. Further, it was noted that if the issue were with APDs or FEBs, one would expect the entire detector to drift together, instead of the different slopes seen among diblocks [130]. Some questions related to other parts of the detector hardware (voltage readout, chiller piping, etc.)…”