Cerebral lateralisation for facial processing: Gender-related cognitive styles determined using Fourier analysis of mean cerebral blood flow velocity in the middle cerebral arteries

Laterality

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 31-49

  Njemanze, Philip C ^a  

^a Chidicon Medical Center   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DARKNESS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FACIES; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECORDING; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COGNITION; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FACE; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33750812257     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: 14640678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500600886796     Document Type: Article

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