The relationship between aerobic fitness and neural oscillations during visuo-spatial attention in young adults

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 233, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1069-1078

  Wang, Chun Hao ^a   Liang, Wei Kuang ^b   Tseng, Philip ^d   Muggleton, Neil G ^b,c   Juan, Chi Hung ^b   Tsai, Chia Liang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Attentional processing; Cardiorespiratory fitness; Oscillatory brain rhythms; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BETA RHYTHM; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EYE MOVEMENT; FITNESS; HUMAN; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; MALE; METABOLIC EQUIVALENT; NERVE CELL; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; TREADMILL TEST; UPREGULATION; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART RATE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN WAVES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925466776     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-014-4182-8     Document Type: Article

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