Gender differences in brain areas involved in silent counting by means of fMRI

Nonlinear Biomedical Physics

Volumn 4, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Šveljo, Olivera B ^a   Koprivšek, Katarina M ^a   Lučić, Miloš A ^a   Prvulović, Mladen B ^a   Ćulić, Milka ^b  

^a Institute of Oncology   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HANDEDNESS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 77954106371     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17534631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1753-4631-4-2     Document Type: Article

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