Sex differences in the development of neuroanatomical functional connectivity underlying intelligence found using Bayesian connectivity analysis

NeuroImage

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 406-419

  Schmithorst, Vincent J ^a   Holland, Scott K ^a  

^a Imaging Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOTOR CORTEX; NARRATIVE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 33846928010     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.11.046     Document Type: Article

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