Acute exercise and aerobic fitness influence selective attention during visual search

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Bullock, Tom ^a   Giesbrecht, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerobic fitness; Attention; Distraction; Exercise; Fatigue; Physical activity; Visual search; VO2max

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923363321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01290     Document Type: Article

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