Both physical exercise and progressive muscle relaxation reduce the facing-the-viewer bias in biological motion perception

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Heenan, Adam ^a   Troje, Nikolaus F ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE BIAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FACING THE VIEWER BIAS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOGGING; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION ANXIETY SCALE; SOCIOBIOLOGY; STANDING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING; DIAGNOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903767836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099902     Document Type: Article

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