Acute aerobic exercise increases cortical activity during working memory: A functional mri study in female college students

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Li, Lin ^a,b   Men, Wei Wei ^b   Chang, Yu Kai ^c   Fan, Ming Xia ^b   Ji, Liu ^a,b   Wei, Gao Xia ^d  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN SPORT UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXERCISE INTENSITY; EXPERIMENTAL COGNITIVE TEST; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LINGUAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARACENTRAL LOBULE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REST; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EXERCISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902578863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099222     Document Type: Article

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