https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/yoga-attention-young-archers Changes to this claim in Matteo Campagna's evidence registry: its status, its year-by-year history, revisions of the page. en-gb https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/yoga-attention-young-archersThe best evidence comes from a single, well-built study: competitive Indian archers aged 12 to 20 randomly assigned to eight weeks of yoga or to a waiting list, with the assessors blind to the groups, and 82 of them included in the final analysis. On the attention network test, yoga cut the cost of distractors by 36.7 milliseconds more than in the control group and improved orienting, the benefit of knowing in advance where to look, by 18.7, while basic alertness did not change. The gain is selective: on trials with conflicting distractors response times shortened by 44 milliseconds relative to the controls, while on the easy trials the difference was not significant. A second supporting study carries less weight, since it is a two-week before-and-after study of thirteen adult elite archers from the same research group with no control; a third, which did have a control group, appeared in a journal with questionable editorial standards and stays as context. The target is what is missing: nobody has checked whether those milliseconds change the score, and in twenty-five young female archers simple reaction time after eight weeks of yoga stayed where it was, from 0.703 to 0.702 seconds.claim:yoga-attenzione-arcieri:revision:2026-08-21:2Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/yoga-attention-young-archersclaim:yoga-attenzione-arcieri:new_claim:2026-08-03:riportatoMon, 03 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT