Cerebellar size and cognition: Correlations with IQ, verbal memory and motor dexterity

Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-8

  Paradiso, Sergio ^a,b   Andreasen, Nancy C ^a,b   O'Leary, Daniel S ^b   Arndt, Stephan ^a,b,c   Robinson, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Cognition; Evolution; Magnetic resonance imaging; Memory; Motor dexterity; Neuropsychological tests; Verbal memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR SKILLS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 0031033179     PISSN: 0894878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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