Exercise-induced fitness changes correlate with changes in neural specificity in older adults

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Kleemeyer, Maike M ^a   Polk, Thad A ^b   Schaefer, Sabine ^c   Bodammer, Nils C ^a   Brechtel, Lars ^d   Lindenberger, Ulman ^a,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Institute of Sports Medicine   (Germany)

^e EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Fitness; Multivariate pattern analysis; Neural specificity; Physical exercise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; AGED; ARTICLE; BICYCLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CARDIOVASCULAR FITNESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE INDUCED FITNESS; EXERCISE INTENSITY; FEMALE; FITNESS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MULTIVARIATE PATTERN ANALYSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEURAL SPECIFICITY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL PLACE AREA; STATIONARY BICYCLE; STUDY DESIGN; VENTRAL VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 85015372652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00123     Document Type: Article

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