Gender differences revealed in the right posterior temporal areas during Navon letter identification tasks

Brain Imaging and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 387-396

  Lee, Jaewon ^a   Chung, Dongil ^a   Chang, Sumin ^b   Kim, Sungyo ^c   Kim, Sang woo ^c   Park, Hyunsang ^c   Ryu, Shinho ^c   Jeong, Jaeseung ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Drug Development Center SK holdings   (South Korea)

^c Gyeonggi High School of Science   (South Korea)

Author keywords

EEG; Gender differences; Hemispheric specialization; Navon letter; sLORETA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NAVON LETTER IDENTIFICATION TEST; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THETA RHYTHM; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SEX FACTORS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84865993899     PISSN: 19317557     EISSN: 19317565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-012-9153-8     Document Type: Article

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