Women process multisensory emotion expressions more efficiently than men

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 220-225

  Collignon, O ^a,b   Girard, S ^a   Gosselin, F ^a   Saint Amour, D ^a,c   Lepore, F ^a,c   Lassonde, M ^a,c  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disgust; Emotion; Facial; Fear; Gender; Multisensory; Sex; Vocal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PROBABILITY; SENSORY SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71549159421     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.09.007     Document Type: Article

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