Exploring the brains of Baduk (Go) experts: Gray matter morphometry, resting-state functional connectivity, and graph theoretical analysis

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Jung, Wi Hoon ^a   Kim, Sung Nyun ^b   Lee, Tae Young ^b   Jang, Joon Hwan ^b   Choi, Chi Hoon ^c   Kang, Do Hyung ^b   Kwon, Jun Soo ^a,b,d  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c National Medical Center   (South Korea)

^d Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Baduk; Head of caudate; Intuitive judgment; Resting state functional connectivity; Somatic marker hypothesis; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONNECTOME; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESTING STATE NETWORK; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 84886412942     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00633     Document Type: Article

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