Intrinsic Brain Hub Connectivity Underlies Individual Differences in Spatial Working Memory

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 5496-5508

  Liu, Jin ^a   Xia, Mingrui ^a   Dai, Zhengjia ^a   Wang, Xiaoying ^a   Liao, Xuhong ^a   Bi, Yanchao ^a   He, Yong ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

connectomics; default mode; functional connectivity; graph theory; module

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY STRENGTH; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NETWORK ANALYSIS; WORKING MEMORY; BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; INDIVIDUALITY; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REST; SPATIAL MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; CONNECTOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REST; SPATIAL MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85048214439     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhw317     Document Type: Article

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