Reversed hierarchy in the brain for general and specific cognitive abilities: A morphometric analysis

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3805-3818

  Román, Francisco J ^a,b   Abad, Francisco J ^a   Escorial, Sergio ^c   Burgaleta, Miguel ^a,d   Martínez, Kenia ^a,b   Álvarez Linera, Juan ^b   Quiroga, María Ángeles ^c   Karama, Sherif ^e   Haier, Richard J ^f   Colom, Roberto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Instituto de Salud Carlos III   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical surface area; Cortical thickness; Intelligence; Surface based morphometry; Voxel based Morphometry (VBM)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN SIZE; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ADOLESCENT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTELLIGENCE TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ORGAN SIZE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; COGNITION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; PSYCHOMETRICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903952767     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22438     Document Type: Article

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