%0 Journal Article
%T Statistical Analysis on Gender Difference in Neural Activity for Spatial Ability Tasks
%A Sung-Ho Kim
%A Namgil Lee
%A Chang-Hyun Park
%J Open Journal of Biophysics
%P 14-27
%@ 2164-5396
%D 2023
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojbiphy.2023.131002
%X Gender differences are investigated from the viewpoint of cognitive neuroscience in the domain of spatial ability. Five task types of geometric problems are used for the collection of task-evoked fMRI data. Although there was no gender-difference in task performance, we found gender differences in neural activity. Some of the important gender differences that we found are 1) that there are far more joint neuro-activations among the brain regions, co-activations or reverse-activations, in males than in females, 2) that the two types of joint activations were nearly half and half in females while it was mostly co-activations in males, 3) that males tend to have more co-activations in the left hemisphere than expected while females tend to have more between-hemisphere co-activations than expected, and 4) that the left-right pairs of BA's are more highly associated than average for males while they are far less associated than average for females.
%K Cross-Correlation
%K Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
%K Co-Activation and Reverse-Activation
%K Between and Within Hemisphere
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=121112