Affective picture perception: Gender differences in visual cortex?

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1109-1112

  Sabatinelli, Dean ^a   Flaisch, Tobias ^a   Bradley, Margaret M ^a   Fitzsimmons, Jeffrey R ^a   Lang, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; FMRI; Gender differences; Pictures; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 2442665089     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200405190-00005     Document Type: Article

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