Does egocentric mental rotation elicit sex differences?

NeuroImage

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1440-1449

  Seurinck, R ^a,c   Vingerhoets, G ^a   De Lange, F P ^b   Achten, E ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Hands; Mental rotation; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGO STRENGTH; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 13844306205     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.08.010     Document Type: Article

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