Acute moderate exercise elicits increased dorsolateral prefrontal activation and improves cognitive performance with Stroop test

NeuroImage

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1702-1710

  Yanagisawa, Hiroki ^a   Dan, Ippeita ^b   Tsuzuki, Daisuke ^b   Kato, Morimasa ^a   Okamoto, Masako ^b   Kyutoku, Yasushi ^b   Soya, Hideaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute moderate intensity exercise; Cognitive performance; Color word matching Stroop task; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Optical topography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ERGOMETRY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE INTENSITY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RESPONSE TIME; STROOP TEST;

ADULT; COGNITION; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PILOT PROJECTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; STROOP TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950594558     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.12.023     Document Type: Article

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