Do women see things differently than men do?

NeuroImage

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 198-207

  Jaušovec, Norbert ^a   Jaušovec, Ksenija ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

ERP; Evoked gamma response; Gender; LORETA; NIRS; P3

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60149111595     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.11.013     Document Type: Article

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