@article{Rafaello Pinheiro Mazzoccante_Hugo de Luca Corrêa_Ioranny Raquel Castro de Sousa_Matheus Almeida Camarâ_Gabriel de Sousa Alves_Beatriz Raquel Castro de Sousa_Frederico Santos de Santana_Aparecido Pimentel Ferreira_Gislane Ferreira de Melo_2021, title={The influence of sports practice in children aged 6 to 7 years on physical fitness, motor coordination and executive functions.}, volume={29}, url={https://www.rpd-online.com/index.php/rpd/article/view/239}, abstractNote={<p class="Abstract"><span lang="ES-TRAD">To compare motor coordination, aerobic fitness, body composition, attention and cognitive flexibility between sports practitioners and non-practitioners children. Participated in the study 68 children aged 6-7 years old, students of a private school. The aerobic fitness was measured using the Yo-Yo Intermittent Recovery Test - level 1 (YYIR1) adapted for children. The motor performance was measured by the körperkoordination für kinder (KTK) test, composed of four tasks: balance beam, monopedal jump, transfer on platforms and lateral jumps. Cognitive flexibility and attention were assessed by the attention cancellation test (ACT) (selective attention), trail making test A (sustained attention) and trail making test B (cognitive flexibility), both of which were composed by visual search task. Sports practitioners had higher scores than non-sports practitioners children (p <0.01) in YYIR1 performance (463.9±349.3 vs 221.17±138.5); motor coordination (343.3 ± 38 vs 309 ± 21.3), lower limb thrust force (jump to 90º (18.6 ± 4.6 vs 16.1 ± 4) and jumping countermovement (19.6 ± 4 .5 vs 16.5 ± 4.1); trail making test A (107.9 ± 7.9 vs 99.3 ± 19.6) and cognitive flexibility (116 ± 15.8 vs. 106.7 ± 17.1) variables. It is possible to observe through the results a possible influence of the sports practice concerning the development of aerobic, motor, sustained attention and cognitive flexibility</span></p>}, number={4}, journal={Revista de Psicología del Deporte (Journal of Sport Psychology)}, author={Rafaello Pinheiro Mazzoccante and Hugo de Luca Corrêa and Ioranny Raquel Castro de Sousa and Matheus Almeida Camarâ and Gabriel de Sousa Alves and Beatriz Raquel Castro de Sousa and Frederico Santos de Santana and Aparecido Pimentel Ferreira and Gislane Ferreira de Melo}, year={2021}, month={Mar.}, pages={175–184} }