[HTML][HTML] Dump the “dimorphism”: Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-female differences beyond size

L Eliot, A Ahmed, H Khan, J Patel - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
With the explosion of neuroimaging, differences between male and female brains have been
exhaustively analyzed. Here we synthesize three decades of human MRI and postmortem …

Naturalistic stimuli in neuroscience: critically acclaimed

S Sonkusare, M Breakspear, C Guo - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2019 - cell.com
Cognitive neuroscience has traditionally focused on simple tasks, presented sparsely and
using abstract stimuli. While this approach has yielded fundamental insights into functional …

Sex differences in cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

R Li, M Singh - Frontiers in neuroendocrinology, 2014 - Elsevier
Studies have shown differences in specific cognitive ability domains and risk of Alzheimer's
disease between the men and women at later age. However it is important to know that sex …

Cognitive sex differences and hemispheric asymmetry: A critical review of 40 years of research

M Hirnstein, K Hugdahl… - Laterality: Asymmetries of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
According to a longstanding view, sex differences in cognitive abilities such as mental
rotation or verbal memory arise from sex differences in hemispheric asymmetry: males are …

Differential association of left and right hippocampal volumes with verbal episodic and spatial memory in older adults

A Ezzati, MJ Katz, AR Zammit, ML Lipton… - Neuropsychologia, 2016 - Elsevier
The hippocampus plays a critical role in verbal and spatial memory, thus any pathological
damage to this formation may lead to cognitive impairment. It is suggested that right and left …

Sex differences in spatial learning and memory and hippocampal long-term potentiation at perforant pathway-dentate gyrus (PP-DG) synapses in Wistar rats

S Safari, N Ahmadi, R Mohammadkhani… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2021 - Springer
Background Recent studies show that gender may have a significant impact on brain
functions. However, the reports of sex effects on spatial ability and synaptic plasticity in …

Neurofunctional topography of the human hippocampus

JL Robinson, DS Barron, LAJ Kirby… - Human brain …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Much of what was assumed about the functional topography of the hippocampus was
derived from a single case study over half a century ago. Given advances in the imaging …

Are there sex differences in brain activity during long-term memory? A systematic review and fMRI activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis

DS Spets, SD Slotnick - Cognitive Neuroscience, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The degree to which sex differences exist in the brain is a current topic of debate. In the
present discussion paper, we reviewed eight functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) …

Enhancing the ecological validity of fMRI memory research using virtual reality

N Reggente, JKY Essoe, ZM Aghajan… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a powerful research tool to understand the
neural underpinnings of human memory. However, as memory is known to be context …

[HTML][HTML] The method of loci in virtual reality: explicit binding of objects to spatial contexts enhances subsequent memory recall

N Reggente, JKY Essoe, HY Baek… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2020 - Springer
The method of loci (MoL) is a well-known mnemonic technique in which visuospatial spatial
environments are used to scaffold the memorization of non-spatial information. We …