Individual differences in left parietal white matter predict math scores on the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test

NeuroImage

Volumn 66, Issue , 2013, Pages 604-610

  Matejko, Anna A ^a   Price, Gavin R ^a   Mazzocco, Michèle M M ^b   Ansari, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Fractional anisotropy (FA); Mathematical cognition; Radial diffusivity (RD); Tract based spatial statistics (TBSS); White matter

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CAPSULA INTERNA; CORONA RADIATA (BRAIN); CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRELIMINARY SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SCORING SYSTEM; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; APTITUDE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; APTITUDE; APTITUDE TESTS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; PARIETAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84870368701     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.10.045     Document Type: Article

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