Gender dependent EEG-changes during a mental rotation task

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 209-222

  Rescher, Brigitte ^a   Rappelsberger, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

EEG amplitude; EEG coherence; Imagery; Mental rotation; Probability mapping; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GENDER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORIENTATION; PROBABILITY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032830699     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8760(99)00063-X     Document Type: Article

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