Investigating Neural Efficiency in the Visuo-Spatial Domain: An fmri Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Lipp, Ilona ^a,b   Benedek, Mathias ^a   Fink, Andreas ^a   Koschutnig, Karl ^a   Reishofer, Gernot ^c   Bergner, Sabine ^a   Ischebeck, Anja ^a   Ebner, Franz ^c   Neubauer, Aljoscha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ACTIVATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR OCCIPITAL LOBE; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INSULA; INTELLIGENCE; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEURAL EFFICIENCY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PSYCHOMETRY; RESPONSE TIME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; VISUOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONS; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84871182936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051316     Document Type: Article

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