Face coding is bilateral in the female brain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Proverbio, Alice Mado ^a   Riva, Federica ^a   Martin, Eleonora ^a   Zani, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME; VISION;

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955293670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011242     Document Type: Article

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