Sex differences in neural mechanisms underlying implicit symmetry processing

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 963-969

  Lux, Silke ^a,b   Marshall, John C ^c   Neufang, Susanne ^a,b   Fink, Gereon R ^a,b,d  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b Brain Imaging Center West   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic visual processing; Figure ground assignment; fMRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; BRIGHTNESS; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE MEMBRANE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 34248679578     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70440-4     Document Type: Article

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