Females and males rely on different cortical regions in Raven's Matrices reasoning capacity: Evidence from a voxel-based morphometry study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Yang, Wenjing ^a,b   Liu, Peiduo ^a,b   Wei, Dongtao ^a,b   Li, Wenfu ^a,b   Hitchman, Glenn ^a,b   Li, Xueping ^c   Qiu, Jiang ^a,b   Zhang, Qinglin ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINA WEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; MEDIAL FRONTAL CORTEX; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAVEN MATRICES TEST; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISUOSPATIAL ABILITY;

FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899753067     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093104     Document Type: Article

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