Acute aerobic exercise and information processing: Energizing motor processes during a choice reaction time task

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 410-419

  Audiffren, Michel ^a   Tomporowski, Phillip D ^b   Zagrodnik, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Motor processes; Motor time; Physical activity; Physiological arousal; Premotor time; Reaction time; Stimulus intensity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

ADOLESCENT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SKIN TEMPERATURE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54049101030     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2008.09.006     Document Type: Article

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