Regional gray and white matter volume associated with stroop interference: Evidence from voxel-based morphometry

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2899-2907

  Takeuchi, Hikaru ^a   Taki, Yasuyuki ^a   Sassa, Yuko ^a   Hashizume, Hiroshi ^a   Sekiguchi, Atsushi ^a   Nagase, Tomomi ^a   Nouchi, Rui ^a   Fukushima, Ai ^a   Kawashima, Ryuta ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gray matter structure; Stroop; Voxel based morphometry; White matter structure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPONSE INHIBITION; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; WORD RECOGNITION;

BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIVIDUALITY; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STROOP TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855425363     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.09.064     Document Type: Article

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