Association of television violence exposure with executive functioning and white matter volume in young adult males

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 26-

  Hummer, Tom A ^a   Kronenberger, William G ^a   Wang, Yang ^a   Anderson, Caitlin C ^b   Mathews, Vincent P ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Executive function; Inhibition; Media violence; Television; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN SIZE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HABIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TELEVISION VIOLENCE; VIOLENCE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900835413     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2014.04.010     Document Type: Article

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