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Short- and Long-Term Changes in Attention, Memory and Brain Activity Following Exercise, Motor Learning, and Expertise

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dc.contributor.advisorDeSouza, Joseph
dc.creatorDi Nota, Paula Maria
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-27T13:57:35Z
dc.date.available2017-07-27T13:57:35Z
dc.date.copyright2017-04-21
dc.date.issued2017-07-27
dc.date.updated2017-07-27T13:57:35Z
dc.degree.disciplinePsychology (Functional Area: Brain, Behaviour & Cognitive Science
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractHow humans perceive, embody, and execute actions has been an area of intense study in cognitive neuroscience, and these investigations shed light on how we adaptively learn from and interact with an ever-changing world. All of the knowledge associated with action, including sensorimotor representations, the words we use to describe them, and the memories that store this information, are represented in distributed brain regions that comprise knowledge schemas. With repeated practice or training, one can acquire a highly specialized motor repertoire that fosters even more efficient and adaptable behaviour to achieve peak performance. Using behavioural, EEG and fMRI approaches, I will present a series of investigations that evaluate the impact of short-term exercise and long-term dance practice on the development of expert knowledge schemas. In Chapters 2 and 3, I will demonstrate that activating one domain in the schema (e.g., action processing) will prime other domains (e.g., verbal attention and working memory) to induce translational performance improvements. Subsequent chapters will reveal how familiarity with a specific genre of dance influences behavioural (Chapter 3) and neurophysiological signatures of action perception, how these motor representations are coded in sensorimotor association areas (Chapters 4), and how they change with repeated practice and performance (Chapter 5). How these findings contribute to our model of expert knowledge schemas will be discussed in Chapter 6. These findings bear efficacy for the therapeutic application of exercise and dance programs to alleviate motor, cognitive and neurophysiological impairments in several clinical populations, including people with Parkinsons disease.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/33618
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectBehavioral sciences
dc.subject.keywordsCognition
dc.subject.keywordsExpertise
dc.subject.keywordsSensorimotor
dc.subject.keywordsNeuroscience
dc.subject.keywordsPsychology
dc.subject.keywordsVision
dc.subject.keywordsAction
dc.subject.keywordsPerception
dc.subject.keywordsExercise
dc.subject.keywordsPlasticity
dc.subject.keywordsWorking memory
dc.subject.keywordsAttention
dc.subject.keywordsSchemas
dc.subject.keywordsLanguage
dc.subject.keywordsSegmentation
dc.subject.keywordsDance
dc.subject.keywordsAesthetics
dc.subject.keywordsElectroencephalography
dc.subject.keywordsEEG
dc.subject.keywordsAlpha
dc.subject.keywordsBeta
dc.subject.keywordsMotor imagery
dc.subject.keywordsKinaesthetic motor imagery
dc.subject.keywordsAction observation
dc.subject.keywordsMovement
dc.subject.keywordsFamiliarity
dc.subject.keywordsFunctional magnetic resonance imaging
dc.subject.keywordsfMRI
dc.subject.keywordsExtrastriate body area
dc.subject.keywordsEBA
dc.subject.keywordsLateral occipitotemporal cortex
dc.subject.keywordsLOTC
dc.titleShort- and Long-Term Changes in Attention, Memory and Brain Activity Following Exercise, Motor Learning, and Expertise
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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