No gender differences in brain activation during the N-back task: An fMRI study in healthy individuals

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3609-3615

  Schmidt, Heike ^a,b   Jogia, Jigar ^a   Fast, Kristina ^b   Christodoulou, Tessa ^a   Haldane, Morgan ^a   Kumari, Veena ^a   Frangou, Sophia ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional imaging; Gender; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350326040     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20783     Document Type: Article

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