Sex differences in the brain response to affective scenes with or without humans

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2374-2388

  Proverbio, Alice Mado ^a   Adorni, Roberta ^a   Zani, Alberto ^b   Trestianu, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOIMAGING AND PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Emotions; Empathy; ERPs; Mirror neurons; Pain; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STUDENT; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650072507     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.10.030     Document Type: Article

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