Individual differences in cognitive style and strategy predict similarities in the patterns of brain activity between individuals

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 83-93

  Miller, Michael B ^a   Donovan, Christa Lynn ^a   Bennett, Craig M ^a   Aminoff, Elissa M ^a   Mayer, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive style; Encoding strategies; fMRI; Inter individual variability; Memory retrieval

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOPOGRAPHY; VERBALIZATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054106759     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.05.060     Document Type: Review

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