Acute Exercise and Neurocognitive Development in Preadolescents and Young Adults: An ERP Study

Table 1

Participant demographic characteristics (mean ± 1 SD; range).

Variable	Group
	Preadolescent children	Young adults
Sample size	20	20
Gender (female: male)	0 : 20	2 : 18
Age (yrs)	10.50 ±. 53; 10-11	20.42 ± 1.16; 19–23
Education (yrs)	4.40 ± .52; 4-5	14.33 ± 1.37; 13–18
Height (cm)	146.30 ± 8.79; 138.00–167.00	169.75 ± 5.82; 156.00–178.00
Weight (kg)	40.00 ± 6.13; 30.00–50.00	66.25 ± 10.80; 48.00–80.00
BMI (kg·m^−2)	18.65 ± 2.14; 15.11–22.32	22.92 ± 3.13; 19.15–27.68
Digit span forward	14.30 ± 1.49; 11–16	14.50 ± 1.31; 12–16
Digit span backward	8.70 ± 2.40; 5–12	10.58 ± 2.97; 5–14
VO2peak (mL·kg^−1·min^−1)	50.60 ± 8.24; 46.43–68.07	49.18 ± 7.57; 44.16–65.43
Resting heart rate	70.20 ± 6.78; 59.00–86.00	65.50 ± 5.27; 56.00–73.00