Neural correlates of human body perception

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 482-495

  Aleong, Rosanne ^a   Paus, Tomáš ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY IMAGE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEX FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 76749143753     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21211     Document Type: Article

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