Executive functions mediate the relationship between cardiorespiratory fitness and academic achievement in Spanish schoolchildren aged 8 to 11 years

María Eugenia Visier-Alfonso; Mairena Sánchez-López; Vicente Martínez-Vizcaíno; Estela Jiménez-López; Andrés Redondo-Tébar; Marta Nieto-López

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0231246

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Executive functions mediate the relationship between cardiorespiratory fitness and academic achievement in Spanish schoolchildren aged 8 to 11 years

María Eugenia Visier-Alfonso ,

Contributed equally to this work with: María Eugenia Visier-Alfonso

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Current address: Faculty of Nursing, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain

Affiliation Faculty of Nursing, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain
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Mairena Sánchez-López ,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mairena.sanchez@uclm.es

Current address: School of Education, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Health and Social Research Center, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain, School of Education, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0217-0623

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Vicente Martínez-Vizcaíno ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Health and Social Research Center, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Talca, Chile

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6121-7893

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Estela Jiménez-López,

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Faculty of Nursing, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain, Health and Social Research Center, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain
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Andrés Redondo-Tébar,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health and Social Research Center, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain
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Marta Nieto-López

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
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Executive functions mediate the relationship between cardiorespiratory fitness and academic achievement in Spanish schoolchildren aged 8 to 11 years

María Eugenia Visier-Alfonso,
Mairena Sánchez-López,
Vicente Martínez-Vizcaíno,
Estela Jiménez-López,
Andrés Redondo-Tébar,
Marta Nieto-López

Published: April 10, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231246

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