White matter structures associated with emotional intelligence: Evidence from diffusion tensor imaging

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1025-1034

  Takeuchi, Hikaru ^a   Taki, Yasuyuki ^a   Sassa, Yuko ^a   Hashizume, Hiroshi ^a   Sekiguchi, Atsushi ^a   Nagase, Tomomi ^a   Nouchi, Rui ^a   Fukushima, Ai ^a   Kawashima, Ryuta ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Emotional processing; Facial perception; Fractional anisotropy; Gray matter; Interpersonal factor; Intrapersonal factor; Situation management factor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL COGNITION; VISUAL CORTEX; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875903412     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21492     Document Type: Article

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