Hemispheric asymmetries and individual differences in visual concept learning as measured by functional MRI

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1316-1324

  Seger, Carol A ^a   Poldrack, Russell A ^b   Prabhakaran, Vivek ^b   Zhao, Margaret ^b   Glover, Gary H ^b   Gabrieli, John D E ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concept learning; fMRI; Hemispheric asymmetries; Neural plasticity; Visual learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFORMANCE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STIMULUS; VISION;

ADULT; BRAIN; CONCEPT FORMATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 0034256976     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(00)00014-2     Document Type: Article

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