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Me Or We? The Effect Of Team And Individual Sports Activity On Executive Functioning, Alexander I. Mckenzie
Me Or We? The Effect Of Team And Individual Sports Activity On Executive Functioning, Alexander I. Mckenzie
Undergraduate Honours Theses
There is limited research examining the processes by which open and closed motor skill sports optimize Executive Functions (EFs). The aim of the present study was to examine the effects of motor sequencing and repetitive movement in individual and team sports and their influence on EFs. The study also investigated gender differences in EF abilities within a sporting context. We tested 40 University students (17 = Male, 23 = Female) aged 17-29 (M = 20.47, SD = 2.75) who were randomly assigned to a team and individual sports-oriented intervention focused on either repetitive or variable motor sequential movement. We predicted …