ArticlePloS one2025
Metacognitive function in young adults is impacted by physical activity, diet, and sleep patterns.
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- The relationship between metacognitive beliefs and healthy aging among older adults.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Community physical activity environments and physical activity levels among older adults: a hierarchical analysis of environmental dimensions.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The Links Between Physical Activity, Metacognition, and Empathy Among Physiotherapy Students.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Attention and spatial navigation in everyday life: Physical activity is associated with subjective aspects of cognitive function.PloS one · 2025Article
- Team vs. individual sports in adolescence: gendered mechanisms linking emotion regulation, social support, and self-efficacy to psychological resilience.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Our cognitive capacities like working memory and attention are known to systematically vary over time with our physical activity levels, dietary choices, and sleep patterns. However, whether our metacognitive capacities--such as our strategic use and optimization of cognitive resources--show a similar relationship with these key lifestyle factors remains unknown. Here we addressed this question in healthy young adults by examining if physical activity, diet, and sleep patterns were predictive of self-reported metacognitive status. Participants completed a set of validated surveys assessing these lifestyle factors over the past week to month, as well as three measures of metacognition. Using multiple regression and exploratory factor analyses we identified four clusters of metacognitive processes that are sensitive to lifestyle behaviours. Specifically, knowledge of and offline regulation of cognition is linked with physical activity, on-line cognitive regulation is related to diet, and metacognitive worry is associated with sleep behaviours. These findings suggest that lifestyle behaviours do not just affect objective cognitive functioning, but also the meta-level processes we use to monitor our cognitive performance and exert strategic control over our cognitive resources.
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