Morphological Differences in the Grey Matters of Mathematicians: A Voxel-Based Morphometry Study
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INTRODUCTION: Use-dependent cortical plasticity has been the subject of some previous studies [1], [2]. However, there is not any study on the structural changes due to the academic occupation of mathematicians. Voxel Based Morphometry (VBM) permits us to make a voxel-based comparison of the local concentration of grey matter between two groups. In this study, we present a preliminary result of a part of an ongoing research. We performed an optimized VBM algorithm on grey matter volumes of mathematicians and the control group to determine whether academic career on mathematics changes the brain morphology.
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