Sex differences in face gender recognition: An event-related potential study

Brain Research

Volumn 1327, Issue , 2010, Pages 69-76

  Sun, Yueting ^a   Gao, Xiaochao ^a   Han, Shihui ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

ERP; Face; Gender; N170; Orientation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950366010     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.02.013     Document Type: Article

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