An fMRI study of sex differences in brain activation during object naming

Functional MRI mapping of category-specific sites associated with naming of famous faces, animals and man-made objects

“…It is proposed that the retrieval of information related to their use might aid in their recognition and naming [17,57] .…”

“…It should be noted that functional neuroimaging measures only correlations between cerebral activity and behavior [17,39,57] , that is, an "activated" area may actually not be essential for completing a specifi c task. Therefore, it is impossible for us to know from our fMRI study whether the areas that we report do play a critical role in the recognition of that class.…”

Gender consistency and difference in healthy adults revealed by cortical thickness

“…For instance, many studies have founded the functional dimorphisms in language (Shaywitz et al, 1995), emotion (Hofer et al, 2006), memory (Speck et al, 2000), object naming (Garn et al, 2009). There are also evidences for the gender-related structural differences in brain volume, brain tissue composition (Nopoulos et al, 2000;Sullivan et al, 2004) and the cortical morphometry (Good et al, 2001;Im et al, 2006;Luders et al, 2004;Raz et al, 2004).…”

Different patterns of cerebral activation in genuine and malingered cognitive effort during performance on the Word Memory Test

“…First, it aims to expand on the findings of Allen et al [30] by including a larger sample of subjects with a balanced number of male and female subjects. Recent research shows potential sex differences detected by fMRI techniques when subjects perform a verbal task and it needs to be determined whether such differences exist between males and females in a SVT paradigm [39]. The second purpose of this study is to examine brain activation associated with intentional malingering on the WMT in normal populations, which is referred to here as simulated poor effort (SPE).…”