Motor and cognitive performance of overweight preschool children

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 40-57

  Krombholz, Heinz ^a  

^a State Institute of Early Childhood Education and Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; COGNITION; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84877686498     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: 1558688X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/22.25.PMS.116.1.40-57     Document Type: Article

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