Preliminary sex differences in human cortical BOLD fMRI activity during the preparation of increasingly complex visually guided movements

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1228-1239

  Gorbet, Diana J ^a   Sergio, Lauren E ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eye hand coordination; Gender; Motor control; Reaching

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOVEMENT; OXYGEN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 33847176285     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05358.x     Document Type: Article

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