Ventral frontal cortex in children: Morphology, social cognition and femininity/masculinity

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 168-176

  Wood, Jessica L ^a   Murko, Vesna ^b   Nopoulos, Peg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain morphology; Femininity; Gender differences; Social perception; Straight gyrus

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMININITY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MASCULINITY; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 45149123730     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsn010     Document Type: Article

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