Gender differences in the functional and structural neuroanatomy of mathematical cognition

NeuroImage

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 342-352

  Keller, Katherine ^a   Menon, Vinod ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Default mode network; Dorsal visual stream; fMRI; Frontal lobe; Gender; Intra parietal sulcus; Lingual gyrus; Mental arithmetic; Parahippocampal gyrus; Parietal cortex; Sex differences; Ventral visual stream

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBICULUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349133150     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.04.042     Document Type: Article

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