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Brief Pre-Class Physical Exercise Selectively Enhances Mathematics-Specific Inhibitory Control: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in Authentic Classrooms

Zhihao Zhang, Weijia Zhu, Yiming Tao, Xiaoxin Fan, Fabian Herold, Myrto F. Mavilidi, Zhengmin Huang, Qian Yu, Peng Wang, David R. Lubans, Caterina Pesce, Charles H. Hillman, Matthew Heath, C. Shawn Green, Ronghuan Jiang, Tomasz S. Ligeza, Mingyi Liu, Aiguo CHEN, Liye Zou, Xia Xu, Fred Paas

2026Educational Psychology Review8 citationsDOI

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PsychologyNegative primingPhysical exercisePriming (agriculture)Task (project management)Physical educationExecutive functionsCognitionEducational psychologyNumeracyCognitive psychologyDevelopmental psychologyPhysical activityExercise physiologyPerspective (graphical)Cognitive inhibitionInhibitory controlPerceptionTask analysisFunction (biology)Physical medicine and rehabilitationPrime (order theory)Motor skillPhysical fitnessCognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skillsEducation, Achievement, and GiftednessVisual and Cognitive Learning Processes