"Cogito ergo sum" or "ambulo ergo sum"? New Perspectives in Developmental Exercise and Cognition Research

Exercise-Cognition Interaction: Neuroscience Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 251-282

  Pesce, Caterina ^a   Ben Soussan, Tal Dotan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME FORO ITALICO   (Italy)

^b Research Institute for Neuroscience   (Italy)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; EEG; Emotion; ERPs; Executive function; Hormones; MRI; Neurotrophins; Physical activity; Sport

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006233507     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800778-5.00012-8     Document Type: Chapter

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