Cortical response to social interaction is affected by gender

NeuroImage

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1327-1332

  Pavlova, Marina ^a,b   Guerreschi, Michele ^a,c   Lutzenberger, Werner ^b   Sokolov, Alexander N ^d   Krägeloh Mann, Ingeborg ^a  

^a Children's Hospital   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d Centre for Ophthalmology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortical activity; Gender differences; Heider and Simmel animations; Induced gamma oscillations; Magnetoencephalography (MEG); Visual social perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERIODICITY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77249177499     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.12.096     Document Type: Article

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