Positive effect of acute mild exercise on executive function via arousal-related prefrontal activations: An fNIRS study

NeuroImage

Volumn 98, Issue , 2014, Pages 336-345

  Byun, Kyeongho ^a   Hyodo, Kazuki ^a   Suwabe, Kazuya ^a   Ochi, Genta ^a   Sakairi, Yosuke ^a   Kato, Morimasa ^b   Dan, Ippeita ^c   Soya, Hideaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Department of Health and Nutrition   (Japan)

^c CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arousal; Cognitive function; Functional near infrared spectroscopy; Mild exercise; Prefrontal cortex; Stroop task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXERCISE; EXERCISE INTENSITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; BRAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AROUSAL; BRAIN; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; STROOP TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902977447     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.04.067     Document Type: Article

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