Some studies have investigated the association between motor development and cognitive skills. The present study aims to correlate motor development and academic performance in 79 students between 7 to 9 years old from a private school in São Paulo-Brazil. We used the Movement Assessment Battery for Children - Second Edition (MABC-2) to assess the motor development and the results of school report in Portuguese and Mathematics as a measure of academic performance. Pearson's correlation analysis showed a positive association between motor development and cognitive skills, evidencing that students who had better academic performance, also obtained better scores in motor performance. The association between MABC-2 total score and Portuguese grade, for example, obtained a significant correlation of p <0.014. Further studies should be carried out to understand if motor development improve can modulate cognitive skills.
A cada quatro anos, grande parte da população mundial volta sua atenção e dedica parte do seu tempo para acompanhar a Copa do Mundo de futebol. No Brasil, em especial, este interesse se multiplica uma vez que o futebol é esporte mais acompanhado, domina os noticiários esportivos nas mais diversas mídias, movimenta milhões em propaganda, marketing, material esportivo, como dizem, “futebol é a paixão nacional”. O que muitas pessoas talvez não saibam é que a prática de esportes, como o futebol por exemplo, pode contribuir com as funções executivas.
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