Gender differences associated with orienting attentional networks in healthy subjects

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 126, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2308-2312

  Liu, Gang ^a   Hu, Pan Pan ^a   Fan, Jin ^b   Wang, Kai ^a  

^a ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Alerting network; Attentional networks; Executive control network; Gender; Orienting network

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RESPONSE TIME; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84879274854     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.20122637     Document Type: Article

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