Mapping the relationship between cortical convolution and intelligence: Effects of gender

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2019-2026

  Luders, Eileen ^a   Narr, Katherine L ^a   Bilder, Robert M ^a,b   Szeszko, Philip R ^c   Gurbani, Mala N ^a   Hamilton, Liberty ^a   Toga, Arthur W ^a   Gaser, Christian ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ZUCKER HILLSIDE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortex; Curvature; Folding; IQ; MRI; Sex

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENDER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 54149097934     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm227     Document Type: Article

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