The architecture of the chess player[U+05F3]s brain

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 152-162

  Hänggi, Jürgen ^a   Brütsch, Karin ^a,b   Siegel, Adrian M ^c   Jäncke, Lutz ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c Division of Neurology   (Switzerland)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Caudate nucleus; Chess expertise; Cortical thickness; Deliberate practice; Elo score; Grey matter; Mean diffusivity; Neuromorphometry; Neuroplasticity; Occipito temporal junction; Structural magnetic resonance imaging; Superior longitudinal fasciculus; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHESS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXPERIENCE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; MALE; MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; PREDICTION; RECREATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SURFACE BASED MORPHOMETRY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905649128     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.07.019     Document Type: Article

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