Gray matter differences correlate with spontaneous strategies in a human virtual navigation task

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 38, 2007, Pages 10078-10083

  Bohbot, Véronique D ^a,e   Lerch, Jason ^b   Thorndycraft, Brook ^a   Iaria, Giuseppe ^c,f   Zijdenbos, Alex P ^b,d  

^a DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d Neuralyse   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Caudate nucleus; Hippocampus; Response learning; Spatial memory; Virtual environment

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MAZE TEST; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUBICULUM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34548840528     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1763-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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