Sex differences in the medial temporal lobe during encoding and recognition of pseudowords and abstract designs

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1888-1895

  Banks, S J ^a   Jones Gotman, M ^a   Ladowski, D ^a   Sziklas, V ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Learning; Memory; Nonverbal; Verbal

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT DESIGN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HIPPOCAMPUS POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOWORD; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VERBALIZATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NERVE NET; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX FACTORS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 83055181219     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.08.087     Document Type: Article

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