Neural Correlates of Beauty

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1699-1705

  Kawabata, Hideaki ^a   Zeki, Semir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PAINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ADULT; BEAUTY; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PORTRAITS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1542294285     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00696.2003     Document Type: Article

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