Wired for her face? Male attentional bias for female faces

Brain Topography

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 14-26

  Okazaki, Yuka ^a,d   Abrahamyan, Arman ^b,e   Stevens, Catherine J ^b   Ioannides, Andreas A ^c  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c AAI SCIENTIFIC CULTURAL SERVICES LTD   (Cyprus)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attentional capture; Fusiform gyrus; Gender; Magnetic field tomography (MFT); MEG; Primary visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACE; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 76649089961     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-009-0112-7     Document Type: Article

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