Sex-dependent neurofunctional predictors of long-term maintenance of visual word learning

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 430, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 87-91

  Dong, Qi ^a   Mei, Leilei ^a   Xue, Gui ^b   Chen, Chuansheng ^c   Li, Tian ^a   Xue, Feng ^a   Huang, Shizhi ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; fMRI; Individual differences; Language learning; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEARNING TEST; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH THERAPY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 37549005211     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.09.078     Document Type: Article

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