Effects of acute exercise on executive processing, short-term and long-term memory

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 333-344

  Coles, Kathryn ^a   Tomporowski, Philip D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brown Peterson task; Cognition; Executive function; Information processing; Switch task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETER; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; COGNITION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37349121207     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: 1466447X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640410701591417     Document Type: Article

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