Culture-related differences in default network activity during visuo-spatial judgments

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 134-142

  Goh, Joshua O S ^a,b   Hebrank, Andrew C ^b   Sutton, Bradley P ^a   Chee, Michael W L ^c   Sim, Sam K Y ^c   Park, Denise C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Culture; Default network; fMRI; Visuo spatial processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGAPORE; UNITED STATES; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SINGAPORE; UNITED STATES; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876875912     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsr077     Document Type: Article

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