Smelling human sex hormone-like compounds affects face gender judgment of men

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1275-1277

  Kovács, Gyula ^a   Gulyás, Balázs ^b   Savic, Ivanka ^b   Perrett, David I ^c   Cornwell, R Elisabeth ^c   Little, Anthony C ^c   Jones, Ben C ^c   Burt, D Michael ^c   Gál, Viktor ^d   Vidnyánszky, Zoltán ^d  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Cross modal interaction; Face gender discrimination; Pheromones

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTROGEN; SEX HORMONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMOREACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FACE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHALATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 2942532534     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000130234.51411.0e     Document Type: Article

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