Sexual dimorphism in the parietal substrate associated with visuospatial cognition independent of general intelligence

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 139-155

  Hänggi, Jürgen ^a   Buchmann, Andreas ^a   Mondadori, Christian R A ^b   Henke, Katharina ^c   Jäncke, Lutz ^a   Hock, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; COGNITION; DENDRITES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WECHSLER SCALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73249147433     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.21175     Document Type: Article

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