Reduced caudate volume and enhanced striatal-DMN integration in chess experts

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1280-1286

  Duan, Xujun ^a   He, Sheng ^b   Liao, Wei ^a   Liang, Dongmei ^c   Qiu, Lihua ^d   Wei, Luqing ^a   Li, Yuan ^a   Liu, Chengyi ^c   Gong, Qiyong ^d   Chen, Huafu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Caudate nucleus; Chess experts; Default mode network; Resting state functional connectivity; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHESS EXPERT; CHINESE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONMEDICAL OCCUPATIONS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; TRAINING;

ADULT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NERVE NET; ORGAN SIZE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS;

EID: 84862794675     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.047     Document Type: Article

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