Inferior frontal white matter asymmetry correlates with executive control of attention

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 796-813

  Yin, Xuntao ^a   Han, Yan ^b   Ge, Haitao ^a   Xu, Wenjian ^b   Huang, Ruiwang ^c   Zhang, Dong ^d   Xu, Junhai ^a   Fan, Lingzhong ^a   Pang, Zengchang ^d   Liu, Shuwei ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b QINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Qingdao Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

Anterior corona radiata; Asymmetry; Attention network test; Diffusion tensor imaging; Inferior frontal lobe

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORONA RADIATA (BRAIN); CORPUS CALLOSUM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANISOTROPY; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875050882     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21477     Document Type: Article

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