Efeito agudo de atividades físicas distintas sobre a atenção seletiva e memória de escolares

Abstract

School physical education (PE) is a mandatory and extremely importance in school education. It is often at school that students have the first contact with physical activity and sports. In most schools EF is offered before or after other disciplines, but there is no explanation for the choice of physical education class schedule. It is known that physical exercise promotes acute neurophysiological changes that influence cognitive processes and the learning. Thus, the aim of this study is to investigate the acute effect of two modalities of physical activity on attention and memory capacity in schoolchildren. Two tests were carried out, Stroop and Subtest Digit, to assess selective attention and working memory, respectively, before and after a running activity and a basketball match. Data were collected in 2 days and included 10 participants, from both sexes and mean age of 15 (± 0.64) years. Selective care has improved after running. Working memory there was a decline both in the direct order and in the order indirect effect on the time after basketball activity. Based on our results, we saw that the acute effect on basketball memory caused a negative acute effect, the that didn’t happen with running, and the activities do not differ as to the effect about selective attention. Although we did not monitor the intensity, in the race this characteristic is continuous from and compared to the intermittent intensity of the basketball, can help explain these results.