Our research investigates how physical health behaviors and attributes influence aspects of cognition. http://education.msu.edu/kin/hbcl
The Health Behaviors & Cognition Laboratory is a research lab in the Department of Kinesiology in the College of Education at Michigan State University. The aim of our research is to investigate how aspects of health-oriented behaviors modulate the development of cognition in the normal preadolescent population as well as within children suffering from cognitive and attentional disorders – particularly in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). To better understand this relationship, research in the HBCL utilizes behavioral, neuroelectric, and other neuroimaging techniques to programatically examine how health behaviors and attributes such as cardiovascular fitness may serve to influence developmental neurocognition and higher-order cognition through cross-sectional and longitudinal intervention studies.
