Sex differences in executive control: A systematic review of functional neuroimaging studies

A Gaillard, DJ Fehring… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The number of studies investigating sex differences in executive functions, particularly those
using human functional neuroimaging techniques, has risen dramatically in the past decade …

A systematic review and meta‐analysis of behavioural sex differences in executive control

A Gaillard, DJ Fehring… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Literature investigating whether an individuals' sex affects their executive control abilities
and performance on cognitive tasks in a normative population has been contradictory and …

Spatiotemporal mapping of sex differences during attentional processing

AH Neuhaus, C Opgen‐Rhein, C Urbanek… - Human brain …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Functional neuroimaging studies have increasingly aimed at approximating neural
substrates of human cognitive sex differences elicited by visuospatial challenge. It has been …

Complementarity of sex differences in brain and behavior: From laterality to multimodal neuroimaging

RC Gur, RE Gur - Journal of neuroscience research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Although, overwhelmingly, behavior is similar in males and females, and, correspondingly,
the brains are similar, sex differences permeate both brain and behavioral measures, and …

The effect of gender on planning: An fMRI study using the Tower of London task

A Boghi, R Rasetti, F Avidano, C Manzone, L Orsi… - Neuroimage, 2006 - Elsevier
Since the introduction of brain mapping, evidences of functional gender differences have
been corroborating previous behavioral and neuropsychological results showing a sex …

Sex differences in cognitive processing: An integrative review of electrophysiological findings

J Ramos-Loyo, AA González-Garrido… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sex differences in cognition and their underlying brain mechanisms have attracted
increasing attention. Brain electrical activity (EEG) represents a reliable, high-temporal …

The influence of sex differences and individual task performance on brain activation during planning

JM Unterrainer, CC Ruff, B Rahm, CP Kaller, J Spreer… - Neuroimage, 2005 - Elsevier
Several studies have attempted to identify the neuronal basis of sex differences in cognition.
However, group differences in cognitive ability rather than genuine neurocognitive …

[HTML][HTML] Sex-specific strategy use and global-local processing: a perspective toward integrating sex differences in cognition

B Pletzer - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
This article reviews the literature on sex-specific strategy use in cognitive tasks with the aim
to carve out a link between sex differences in different cognitive tasks. I conclude that male …

[HTML][HTML] Characterising the unity and diversity of executive functions in a within-subject fMRI study

R Saylik, AL Williams, RA Murphy, AJ Szameitat - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Behavioural studies investigating the relationship between Executive Functions (EFs)
demonstrated evidence that different EFs are correlated with each other, but also that they …

Sex effects on development of brain structure and executive functions: greater variance than mean effects

LM Wierenga, MGN Bos, F van Rossenberg… - Journal of cognitive …, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
Although male brains have consistently reported to be 8–10% larger than female brains, it
remains not well understood whether there are differences between sexes (average or …