Similar prefrontal cortical activities between general fluid intelligence and visuospatial working memory tasks in preschool children as revealed by optical topography

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 206, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 381-397

  Kuwajima, Mariko ^a,b   Sawaguchi, Toshiyuki ^a,b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Executive function; FNIRS; GF; PFC; Preschoolers; Spatial matching to sample

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYHEMOGLOBINS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 77957654623     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2415-z     Document Type: Article

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