Structural differences in hippocampal and prefrontal gray matter volume support flexible context-dependent navigation ability

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2314-2320

  Brown, Thackery I ^a,b   Whiteman, Andrew S ^a   Aselcioglu, Irem ^a   Stern, Chantal E ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER VOLUME; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; ORGAN SIZE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893499853     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2202-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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