Research Article

Acute Exercise as an Intervention to Trigger Motor Performance and EEG Beta Activity in Older Adults

Table 4

Descriptive results for EEG beta power at rest and TRPow for EG and CG.

EEG restEEG TRPow
123B-blockMP-blockiML-blocksMM-block

F3
EG.26 ± .10.34 ± .13.25 ± .09.01 ± .05−.23 ± .09−.06 ± .12−.06 ± .06
CG.17 ± .08.12 ± .06.35 ± .09−.04 ± .07.13 ± .07.21 ± .07−.09 ± .08
C3
EG.67 ± .08.08 ± .09.81 ± .08−.24 ± .07−.40 ± .06−.28 ± .07−.35 ± .05
CG.56 ± .06.65 ± .06.69 ± .06−.28 ± .05−.28 ± .04−.22 ± .06−.30 ± .06
CP3
EG.79 ± .06.94 ± .08.93 ± .06−.23 ± .07−.41 ± .06−.37 ± .05−.39 ± .03
CG.72 ± .06.80 ± .04.89 ± .06−.29 ± .06−.32 ± .04−.27 ± .05−.36 ± .05
F4
EG.13 ± .09.13 ± .10.26 ± .09.10 ± .06−.01 ± .08.19 ± .11−.13 ± .07
CG.28 ± .09.31 ± 07.40 ± .07.01 ± .06.02 ± .06.11 ± .06−.11 ± .06
C4
EG.71 ± 09.75 ± .09.82 ± .08−.57 ± .08−.35 ± .06−.26 ± .06−.39 ± .06
CG.53 ± .06.66 ± .06.70 ± 05−.50 ± .04−.24 ± .07−.21 ± .06−.30 ± .06
CP4
EG.83 ± .08.86 ± 07.90 ± .07−.19 ± .08−.23 ± .06−.21 ± .06−.23 ± .06
CG.67 ± .06.81 ± .05.85 ± .05−.11 ± .04−.21 ± .05−.15 ± .05−.24 ± .05

Note. Mean ± SEM; EG = experimental group; CG = control group; B-block = baseline; MP-block = motor performance; iML-block = initial motor learning; sMM-block = short-term motor memory.