Systemizing influences attentional processes during the Navon task: An fMRI study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 511-520

  Billington, Jac ^a   Baron Cohen, Simon ^a   Bor, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; fMRI; Navon; Systemizing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY LEARNING; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 38749137726     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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