The purpose of this study is to test whether exercise can aid healthy cognitive development in children and adolescence and this article will illustrate that the same facts are true for children and adolescence, and will highlight the importance of physical exercise for optimal brain development and growth in children. Current studies show that physical activity has a positive effect on attention, neuroplasticity and intellectual development in children and adolescence. Studies also appear to demonstrate the importance of physical activity such as physical education classes and breaks in schools and curricula in having healthy, well-grounded children. Studies show that physical activity has effects on brain growth and development and if children activated and grew their brains to their maximum potential, it could have lasting effects into adulthood, thus increasing dementia and alchemizing symptoms and memory loss as we age. on healthy cognitive development in: Exercise has been shown to help rebuild brain cells and enable proper and healthy cognitive functioning in adults. This relates to cognition in psychology because studies show that there is a physical change in brain capacity, memory and cell growth from regular and efficient exercise. One of the most important aspects of the article that I will focus on is the effect that exercise has on attention in children, which helps regulate cognitive functioning and promotes further development and learning. These articles examine the neuroscience that supports the fact that exercise is critical to brain development in children and adolescents and the importance of the renewal and growth of healthy brain cells that also impact cognitive functioning. Literature review: Gomez lo...... middle paper......engineering, 73(12-B)(E).Golubavik, S. (2012). Effects of exercise on physical fitness in children with intellectual disabilities. Research on developmental disabilities. 33(2), 608-614. Tomporowski, P. (2012). Exercise psychology and children's intelligence. The Oxford handbook of exercise psychology. 409-429. Kraft, E. (2012). “Cognitive function, physical activity and aging: possible biological links and implications for multimodal interventions. Aging, neuropsychology and cognition.19(1-2), 248-263.Hogan, M. (2013). The interactive effects of physical fitness and acute aerobic exercise on electrophysiological coherence and cognitive performance in adolescents. ExperimentalBrain Research, 229(1), 85-96.Etneir, J. (2013). Cognitive measures related to exercise and physical activity. Measurement in sport and exercise psychology. 179-189.