Own-sex effects in emotional memory for faces

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 426, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-5

  Armony, Jorge L ^a   Sergerie, Karine ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amygdala; fMRI; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Gender; Hemispheric lateralization; Neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENDER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACE; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 34548821580     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.08.032     Document Type: Article

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