Sex-related similarities and differences in the neural correlates of beauty

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3847-3852

  Cela Conde, Camilo J ^a   Ayala, Francisco J ^b   Munar, Enric ^a   Maestú, Fernando ^c   Nadal, Marcos ^a   Capó, Miguel A ^a   Del Río, David ^c   López Ibor, Juan J ^c   Ortiz, Tomás ^c   Mirasso, Claudio ^d   Marty, Gisèle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aesthetic preference; Brain lateralization; Gender differences; Human evolution; Magnetoencefalography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHIMPANZEE; ESTHETICS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; BEAUTY; BRAIN MAPPING; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

PAN;

EID: 62649112433     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0900304106     Document Type: Article

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