The voices of seduction: Cross-gender effects in processing of erotic prosody

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 334-337

  Ethofer, Thomas ^a   Wiethoff, Sarah ^a   Anders, Silke ^a   Kreifelts, Benjamin ^a   Grodd, Wolfgang ^a   Wildgruber, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion; Erotic; fMRI; Prosody; Sex; Voice

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EROTISM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUND RELATED PHENOMENA; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUBICULUM;

ADULT; BRAIN; EROTICA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 36549073783     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsm028     Document Type: Article

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