A bias for the female face in the right hemisphere

Laterality

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 374-386

  Parente, Rosanna ^a   Tommasi, Luca ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND COGNITION RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FACE; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; GENDER IDENTITY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; BRAIN; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 47349120227     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: 14640678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500802103495     Document Type: Article

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