Cortex
Volume 45, Issue 5 , Pages 610-618 , May 2009

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

Received 15 March 2007 ,Revised 6 August 2007 ,Accepted 25 February 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2008.02.004

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