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| CHARLES HILLMANSummaryAffiliation: University of Illinois Country: USA Publications
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The relationship of age and cardiovascular fitness to cognitive and motor processesCharles H Hillman
Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Psychophysiology 39:303-12. 2002..Therefore, physical fitness is associated with attenuation of cognitive decline in older individuals and greater economy of motor preparation for both young and older participants...- Physical activity and cognitive function in a cross-section of younger and older community-dwelling individualsCharles H Hillman
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Health Psychol 25:678-87. 2006..Findings suggest that physical activity may be beneficial to both general and selective aspects of cognition, particularly among older adults... - Be smart, exercise your heart: exercise effects on brain and cognitionCharles H Hillman
Charles H Hillman is at the Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, 213 Louise Freer Hall, 906 South Goodwin Avenue, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
Nat Rev Neurosci 9:58-65. 2008..A growing number of studies support the idea that physical exercise is a lifestyle factor that might lead to increased physical and mental health throughout life... - Aerobic fitness and neurocognitive function in healthy preadolescent childrenCharles H Hillman
Department of Kinesiology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 61801, USA
Med Sci Sports Exerc 37:1967-74. 2005..We investigated the relationship between age, aerobic fitness, and cognitive function by comparing high- and low-fit preadolescent children and adults... - Postural and eye-blink indices of the defensive startle reflexCharles H Hillman
Department of Kinesiology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 213 Louise Freer Hall, 906 S Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 55:45-9. 2005..The results suggest that a measurable postural reaction may be observed following a startling acoustic stimulus, which may reflect generalized bodily flexion associated with a preparatory behavioral response... - Acute cardiovascular exercise and executive control functionCharles H Hillman
Department of Kinesiology, 213 Freer Hall, 906 South Goodwin Avenue, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 48:307-14. 2003.... - Physical activity and executive control: implications for increased cognitive health during older adulthoodCharles H Hillman
Department of Kinesiology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Res Q Exerc Sport 75:176-85. 2004.... - Emotion and motivated behavior: postural adjustments to affective picture viewingCharles H Hillman
Department of Kinesiology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 213 Louise Freer Hall, 906 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Biol Psychol 66:51-62. 2004..These findings extend our knowledge of motivated engagement with affective stimuli and indicate that postural responses may provide insight into sex-related differences in withdrawal behavior... 
The relation of aerobic fitness to neuroelectric indices of cognitive and motor task preparationKeita Kamijo
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
Psychophysiology 47:814-21. 2010....- Age and physical activity influences on action monitoring during task switchingJason R Themanson
Department of Kinesiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 213 Freer Hall, 906 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Neurobiol Aging 27:1335-45. 2006..The findings suggest that both age and physical activity participation influence behavioral and neuroelectric indices of action monitoring and provide further evidence for the beneficial effects of physical activity on executive control... 
Aerobic fitness and cognitive development: Event-related brain potential and task performance indices of executive control in preadolescent childrenCharles H Hillman
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Dev Psychol 45:114-29. 2009..The findings differ from those observed in adult populations by indicating a general rather than a selective relationship between aerobic fitness and cognition...- The persistent effects of concussion on neuroelectric indices of attentionSteven P Broglio
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
J Neurotrauma 26:1463-70. 2009..It is not clear if these persistent deficits will manifest into clinical pathologies later in life... - Influences of age on emotional reactivity during picture processingDarin P Smith
Department of Kinesiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 906 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 60:P49-56. 2005..These age differences suggest that older adults have differential reactivity to affective picture viewing, and they indicate that age-related changes in emotion are not unitary across response systems... - The effect of acute aerobic and resistance exercise on working memoryMatthew B Pontifex
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL 61801, USA
Med Sci Sports Exerc 41:927-34. 2009..The goal of this investigation was to assess the influence of acute bouts of aerobic versus resistance exercise on the executive control of working memory... - The association between mild traumatic brain injury history and cognitive controlMatthew B Pontifex
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Neuropsychologia 47:3210-6. 2009.... - A cross-sectional examination of age and physical activity on performance and event-related brain potentials in a task switching paradigmCharles H Hillman
Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, 405 North Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 59:30-9. 2006..Results are discussed in terms of the specificity and generality of physical activity effects on cognition... - Age, physical fitness, and attention: P3a and P3bMatthew B Pontifex
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Psychophysiology 46:379-87. 2009..Further, fitness did not influence attentional orienting. The findings suggest that fitness-related changes in cognitive function may originate from other attentional mechanisms. Theoretical implications are discussed... - Concussion does not impact intraindividual response time variabilityJacob J Sosnoff
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Neuropsychology 21:796-802. 2007..As such, RT variability is not a unique identifier of cognitive dysfunction following concussion. These results highlight that transient brain injury has significantly different neurobiological consequences than chronic conditions have... - Basal ganglia volume is associated with aerobic fitness in preadolescent childrenLaura Chaddock
Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Dev Neurosci 32:249-56. 2010..Because children are becoming increasingly overweight, unhealthy and unfit, understanding the neurocognitive benefits of an active lifestyle during childhood has important public health and educational implications... - The relation of aerobic fitness to stroop task performance in preadolescent childrenSarah M Buck
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana Champaign, IL, USA
Med Sci Sports Exerc 40:166-72. 2008..We investigated the relation between aerobic fitness and interference control--one component of executive control--in 74 children between 7 and 12 yr of age... - On the number of trials necessary for stabilization of error-related brain activity across the life spanMatthew B Pontifex
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
Psychophysiology 47:767-73. 2010..These data indicate that the ERN and Pe may be accurately quantified with as few as six to eight commission error trials across the life span... - Physical fitness and academic achievement in third- and fifth-grade studentsDarla M Castelli
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
J Sport Exerc Psychol 29:239-52. 2007..The findings are discussed with regards to maximizing school performance and the implications for educational policies... - Neuroelectric and behavioral indices of interference control during acute cyclingMatthew B Pontifex
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, 213 Louise Freer Hall, 906 South Goodwin Avenue, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL 61801, USA
Clin Neurophysiol 118:570-80. 2007..This study examined the effects of in-task, moderate-intensity aerobic exercise on neuroelectric and behavioral indices of interference control, one component of executive control... - Self-efficacy effects on neuroelectric and behavioral indices of action monitoring in older adultsJason R Themanson
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 213 Freer Hall, 906 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Neurobiol Aging 29:1111-22. 2008..The findings suggest that SE may be related to neuroelectric and behavioral indices of action monitoring in older adults when task demands require greater attention to action monitoring processes... - Neuroelectric measurement of cognition during aerobic exerciseMatthew B Pontifex
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois, 213 Louise Freer Hall MC 052, 906 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana Champaign, IL 61801, USA
Methods 45:271-8. 2008.... - Sensorimotor gating and anxiety: prepulse inhibition following acute exerciseAaron R Duley
University of Central Florida, Institute for Simulation and Training, Orlando, FL 32826, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 64:157-64. 2007..The current results highlight the potential for PPI to index the potential anxiolytic effects of an acute exercise bout... - Neurobiology of exerciseRod K Dishman
Department of Exercise Science, The University of Georgia, Ramsey Center, 330 River Road, Athens, GA 30602 6554, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 14:345-56. 2006....
Research Grants
- Exercise, Executive Processes and the Aging BrainCHARLES HILLMAN; Fiscal Year: 2005....
- ERPs to Academics: Exercise Effects on Cognition in School-Aged ChildrenCharles H Hillman; Fiscal Year: 2010..These findings will provide lifestyle considerations for children to improve their cognitive health across the lifespan. ..