Psychology 3225A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Anterior Commissure, Bulbospongiosus Muscle, Preoptic Area
21 Sep 2016
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Salat and colleagues (1997) tested healthy elderly subjects and looked for age related atrophy in cc. The cerebellum and pons served as control structures. Women had slightly larger posterior sector of cc and showed age related atrophy of anterior and middle sectors of. Cc area especially in anterior sector was correlated (r= 0. 30) with visual but not verbal memory in women but not men. Only explaining 9% of the variance which isn"t that. Y axis is the dependent variable: interesting point big difference where the peaks are for males and females. So all of the red curves are much lower (females: difference in size, function of age, shape of graph differ because of the differences. 2 years earlier in females: the observation of greater overall brain volume in males is problematic in interpreting. One needs to scale for size (men bigger overall: however this is not an issue if looking at adolescent brains as girls at.
