Cardiovascular and coordination training differentially improve cognitive performance and neural processing in older adults

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MARCH, 2011, Pages

  Voelcker Rehage, Claudia ^a   Godde, Ben ^a   Staudinger, Ursula M ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain aging; Cognition; Fitness; Functional mri; Older adults; Physical training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR TRAINING; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION TRAINING; DATA ANALYSIS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

EID: 84933676479     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00026     Document Type: Article

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