Sex differences in mental rotation: Top-down versus bottom-up processing

NeuroImage

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 445-456

  Butler, Tracy ^a   Imperato McGinley, Julianne ^a   Pan, Hong ^a   Voyer, Daniel ^b   Cordero, Juan ^a   Zhu, Yuan Shan ^a   Stern, Emily ^a   Silbersweig, David ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSULA; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MOTION PERCEPTION; NERVE NET; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33746043799     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.03.030     Document Type: Article

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