Physical activity moderates time-of-day differences in older adults' working memory performance

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 431-446

  Bugg, Julie M ^a,b   DeLosh, Edward L ^a   Clegg, Benjamin A ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSTHYMIA; HUMAN; MEMORY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FATIGUE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHYSICAL FITNESS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33748849479     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730600875833     Document Type: Article

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