Are women better mindreaders? Sex differences in neural correlates of mentalizing detected with functional MRI

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Krach, Sören ^a   Blümel, Isabelle ^b   Marjoram, Dominic ^c   Lataster, Tineke ^d   Krabbendam, Lydia ^d   Weber, Jochen ^e   van Os, Jim ^d   Kircher, Tilo ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; NEUROIMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; THINKING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HUMAN RELATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REACTION TIME; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63249113832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-10-9     Document Type: Article

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