The effects of cardiorespiratory fitness and acute aerobic exercise on executive functioning and EEG entropy in adolescents

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue OCTOBER, 2015, Pages

  Hogan, Michael J ^a   O’Hora, Denis ^a   Kiefer, Markus ^b   Kubesch, Sabine ^b,c   Kilmartin, Liam ^a   Collins, Peter ^d   Dimitrova, Julia ^e  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c Institute Education plus   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognition; EEG; Entropy; Exercise; Fitness

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CARDIORESPIRATORY FITNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENTROPY; ERGOMETRY; ERROR RATE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MENTAL TASK; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84947546807     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00538     Document Type: Article

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