Gender differences influence brain's beta oscillatory responses in recognition of facial expressions

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 424, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 94-99

  Güntekin, Bahar ^a   Başar, Erol ^a  

^a ISTANBUL KULTUR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Beta; Emotion; Event related oscillations; Face expressions; Gender differences; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; BETA RHYTHM; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 34548041202     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.07.052     Document Type: Article

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