PMID- 23751303
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20140311
LR  - 20130722
IS  - 1873-3379 (Electronic)
IS  - 0891-4222 (Linking)
VI  - 34
IP  - 9
DP  - 2013 Sep
TI  - A comparative study of performance in simple and choice reaction time tasks 
      between obese and healthy-weight children.
PG  - 2635-41
LID - S0891-4222(13)00178-9 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.ridd.2013.04.016 [doi]
AB  - This study investigated weight status related differences in executive functions 
      and movement execution to determine whether or not childhood obesity is 
      associated with impaired perceptual-motor function. Nineteen obese (OB) children 
      (10 male symbol and 9 female symbol, aged 6-12 years) and nineteen gender and age matched 
      healthy-weight (HW) peers performed two computer-based reaction time tasks. For 
      both the simple and four choice reaction time (SRT/CRT) task condition, absolute 
      mean reaction time (RT) and movement time (MT) were determined and expressed as a 
      percentage of total response time (RsT). During the SRT task, OB children were 
      intrinsically slower than their HW peers as reflected by a significantly higher 
      absolute RT, MT and RsT. In the CRT task, however, between-group differences were 
      only present for RT and RsT, whereas absolute MT was comparable among OB and HW 
      participants. As a result, the relative temporal structure of RsT significantly 
      differed between BMI groups, with a greater RT percentage among the OB children. 
      During the CRT condition, OB children probably await final decision-making with 
      regard to the execution of their response movement, which then no longer needs to 
      be adjusted. Our results therefore indicate the use of a more conservative 
      strategy within the OB group, suggesting that childhood obesity is associated 
      with impaired perceptual-motor function. Besides the widely accepted mechanical 
      explanation, a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying OB children's 
      motor incompetence is needed to set up appropriate interventions to tackle this 
      deficit and indirectly address associated health-related problems.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Gentier, Ilse
AU  - Gentier I
AD  - Department of Movement and Sports Sciences, Ghent University, Watersportlaan 2, 
      9000 Ghent, Belgium. ilse.gentier@ugent.be
FAU - Augustijn, Mireille
AU  - Augustijn M
FAU - Deforche, Benedicte
AU  - Deforche B
FAU - Tanghe, Ann
AU  - Tanghe A
FAU - De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse
AU  - De Bourdeaudhuij I
FAU - Lenoir, Matthieu
AU  - Lenoir M
FAU - D'Hondt, Eva
AU  - D'Hondt E
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20130607
PL  - United States
TA  - Res Dev Disabil
JT  - Research in developmental disabilities
JID - 8709782
SB  - IM
MH  - Body Height
MH  - Body Weight
MH  - Child
MH  - Choice Behavior/*physiology
MH  - Executive Function/physiology
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Movement/physiology
MH  - Obesity/*physiopathology
MH  - Psychomotor Performance/*physiology
MH  - Reaction Time/*physiology
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Children
OT  - Obesity
OT  - Perceptual-motor function
OT  - Reaction time
OT  - Response time
EDAT- 2013/06/12 06:00
MHDA- 2014/03/13 06:00
CRDT- 2013/06/12 06:00
PHST- 2013/01/17 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/04/19 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2013/04/22 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2013/06/12 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/06/12 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/03/13 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0891-4222(13)00178-9 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.ridd.2013.04.016 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Res Dev Disabil. 2013 Sep;34(9):2635-41. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2013.04.016. Epub 
      2013 Jun 7.