Frontal brain asymmetry predicts affective style in men

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-6

  Jacobs, Gregg D ^a,c   Snyder, David ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN;

EID: 0030060672     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.1.3     Document Type: Article

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