Brain activation during human navigation: Gender-different neural networks as substrate of performance

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 404-408

  Grön, Georg ^a   Wunderlich, Arthur P ^a   Spitzer, Manfred ^a   Tomczak, Reinhard ^a   Riepe, Matthias W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBICULUM; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0242464690     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/73980     Document Type: Article

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