Human gender differences in an emotional visual oddball task: An event-related potentials study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 367, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 14-18

  Campanella, S ^a   Rossignol, M ^a   Mejias, S ^a   Joassin, F ^a   Maurage, P ^a   Debatisse, D ^b   Bruyer, R ^a   Crommelinck, M ^a   Guerit J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Emotion; Event related potentials; Gender differences; Oddball design

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 4043169905     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.05.097     Document Type: Article

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