The association between aerobic fitness and language processing in children: Implications for academic achievement

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 140-152

  Scudder, Mark R ^a   Federmeier, Kara D ^a   Raine, Lauren B ^a   Direito, Artur ^a,b   Boyd, Jeremy K ^a,c   Hillman, Charles H ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ERP; N400; P600; Semantic processing; Syntactic processing

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ACCURACY; AEROBIC FITNESS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; BRAIN; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXERCISE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; READING;

BRAIN; CHILD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84898844484     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2014.03.016     Document Type: Article

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