Table 4.

Major findings from studies under miscellaneous physical activities.

	Category of miscellaneous activities	Major findings
1	Neural correlates without mental effects	• Alpha increases initially and then decreases when maximum running intensity is achieved • Beta amplitudes in occipital midline are inversely correlated with participants' physical condition • Alpha increases after exercise in parietal and occipital areas • Brain more active between exercise and no-exercise conditions • Increase of alpha immediately before physical task • Alpha increases, theta increases and beta decreases during lower brain activation • Decreased frequencies during repetitive knee-bending • Sharp patterns and reproducible waves during hatha-yoga • Increase in all major bands after gradually intensifying cycling • Increase in theta, alpha and beta amplitudes after moderate intensity running • Alpha decreases when there is high aerobic demand • More changes in alpha-beta ratio values in hot environment • Changes in gamma power between steady walking steps, intra-stride gamma frequency increases, alpha and beta frequency decrease in leg-motor areas • Changes in MRCP for squats of different intensity • Beta and gamma amplitudes increase during weight training • Mu power decreases during lifting prior to onset • Mean alpha power correlates with load levels of light assembly task • Greater activation in parietal-frontal areas in case of unfamiliar tool handling • Reduction in frontal midline theta and upper alpha power during the onset of golf putting • EEG signatures in left hemisphere correlates with shooting performance in archery
2	Neural correlates with mental effects	• More active left hemisphere when exercising with positive music, larger alpha in central areas when exercising with audiobook • Music improves motor control • In hot environment, perceived exertion correlates more with EEG than EMG • Hyperthermia due to cycling slows down EEG signals and increases RPE • Alpha and beta decrease in frontal and central areas due to exercise in hot environment • Reduced alpha when there is hypoxia, beta is higher than hot environment • Lagged phase synchronization increase at the end of cycling, coherence is less at the end of lifting • Fatigue and cortical amplitudes are proportional in resistance squats • Positive correlation between FAA and mood disturbance in older people, negative correlation for younger ones • Robust change in FAA after intense exercise are higher than at rest in younger females • Cortical activity correlates with exercise preference and task duration • Correlations among perceptions, psychological stress, alpha and beta • Resting FAA predicts affective state at a below threshold intensity level • No change in FAA for self-selected exercise, but better affective response • Decrease in frontal-midline theta and increase in temporal-occipital alpha in pre-shooting phase • Higher theta, lower left-central alpha and higher left-temporal alpha when there is higher shooting accuracy
3	Neural correlates with other recording methods	• EMG cyclic power modulation (24-40 Hz) for walking and cycling • Stronger and sustained cortical activation including decreased beta power in cycling, decreased alpha power in walking • EEG precedes EMG in low gamma band between swing and stance during gait • Beta suppression increases with force levels for strength training • Less activation of antagonist muscles in EMG for strength training than endurance training. • Reduced beta ERD in left sensorimotor areas, no correlation between CMC and motor skill retention • Motor neurons activate faster in regular exercisers • FuzzyEn and AMHRR are correlated in alpha, beta and theta bands