Brain responses differ to faces of mothers and fathers

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-51

  Arsalidou, Marie ^a   Barbeau, Emmanuel J ^b   Bayless, Sarah J ^c   Taylor, Margot J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caudate; Faces; Fathers; FMRI; Mothers; Personally familiar

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FATHER; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOVE; MALE; MOTHER; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC FIGURE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACE; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTHERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 77955274341     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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