Comparable cortical activation with inferior performance in women during a novel cognitive inhibition task

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 167-173

  Halari, R ^a   Kumari, V ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Estrogen; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Inhibition; Prefrontal cortex; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 12944307848     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2004.08.022     Document Type: Article

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