Topography of evoked brain activity during mental arithmetic and language tasks: Sex differences

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 421-430

  Skrandies, W ^a   Reik, P ^a   Kunze, Ch ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain electrical topography; Evoked potential; Language; Mental arithmetic; Sex differences; Visual information processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; TOPOGRAPHY; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PROCESSES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 0033032956     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(98)00103-1     Document Type: Article

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