Cardiorespiratory fitness and attentional control in the aging brain

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Prakash, Ruchika Shaurya ^a   Voss, Michelle W ^b   Erickson, Kirk I ^c   Lewis, Jason M ^b   Chaddock, Laura ^b   Malkowski, Edward ^b   Alves, Heloisa ^b   Kim, Jennifer ^b   Szabo, Amanda ^b   White, Siobhan M ^b   Wójcicki, Thomas R ^b   Klamm, Emily L ^b   McAuley, Edward ^b   Kramer, Arthur F ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiorespiratory fitness; Cognitive and attentional control; Stroop task

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STROOP TEST; UPREGULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 79953001599     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00229     Document Type: Article

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