Larger Right Posterior Parietal Volume in Action Video Game Experts: A Behavioral and Voxel-Based Morphometry (VBM) Study

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Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Tanaka, Satoshi ^a   Ikeda, Hanako ^b   Kasahara, Kazumi ^c,d   Kato, Ryo ^e   Tsubomi, Hiroyuki ^f   Sugawara, Sho K ^c,g   Mori, Makoto ^h   Hanakawa, Takashi ^d,i   Sadato, Norihiro ^g   Honda, Manabu ^d   Watanabe, Katsumi ^i,j  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^e WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^h Special Support Educational Department   (Japan)

ⁱ JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEPTH PERCEPTION; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; RECREATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CHILD; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; VIDEO GAMES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878891233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066998     Document Type: Article

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