Individual structural differences in left inferior parietal area are associated with schoolchildrens' arithmetic scores

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Li, Yongxin ^a   Hu, Yuzheng ^a   Wang, Yunqi ^b   Weng, Jian ^a   Chen, Feiyan ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arithmetical skill; Fiber tracking; Left intraparietal sulcus; Structure behavior correlation; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTO OCCIPITAL FASCICULUS; INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 84889762915     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00844     Document Type: Article

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