Amygdalar enlargement associated with unique perception

Cortex

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 94-99

  Asari, Tomoki ^a   Konishi, Seiki ^a   Jimura, Koji ^a   Chikazoe, Junichi ^a   Nakamura, Noriko ^b   Miyashita, Yasushi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Nakamura Psychotherapy Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Cingulate cortex; Creativity; Rorschach; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATIVITY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70649093865     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2008.08.001     Document Type: Article

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