An fMRI study of sex differences in regional activation to a verbal and a spatial task

Brain and Language

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 157-170

  Gur, Ruben C ^a   Alsop, David ^b   Glahn, David ^a   Petty, Richard ^a   Swanson, Charlie L ^a   Maldjian, Joseph A ^b   Turetsky, Bruce I ^a   Detre, John A ^b   Gee, James ^a,b   Gur, Raquel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; fMRI; Inferior parietal lobe; Lateralization; Left hemisphere; Men; Planum temporale; Right hemisphere; Sex differences; Spatial; Verbal reasoning; Women

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0033842477     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.2000.2325     Document Type: Article

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