Effects of Different Kinds of Sports Training on Children's Executive Function

To investigate the executive function differences of children who had long-term exercise with four sports. There were 110 children respectively selected from Fourth grade that participated in basketball, badminton, table tennis and taekwondo training as subjects, and the other 60 children who had not any training programs the same choosed from fourth-grade students as control group. All subjects from five groups are supposed to fulfill three tasks, the Flanker task, the 1-back task and the More-odd shifting task to respectively measure the level of three sub-functions, i.e. inhibition, updating and shifting. Result:(1)the updating function of five groups have no significant difference, (2) the inhibition function of the table tennis group and the basketball group are better than other groups,(3)the shifting function of the badminton group and the taekwondo group are better than other groups. In conclusion, there are significant differences on executive function among children who had long-term exercise with different sports.