Lateralized cognitive visuospatial processing: Is it primarily gender-related or due to quality of performance? A HMPAO-SPECT study

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 95-101

  Unterrainer, Josef ^a   Wranek, Ursula ^a   Staffen, Wolfgang ^b   Gruber, Thomas ^b   Ladurner, Gunther ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b Christian Doppler Klinik   (Austria)

Author keywords

HMPAO SPECT study; Lateralization; Sex differences; Visual spatial performances

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0033971969     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000026639     Document Type: Article

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