Gender Differences in Brain Activation During Encoding and Recognition of Male and Female Faces

Brain Imaging and Behavior

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-67

  Ino, Tadashi ^a   Nakai, Ryusuke ^b   Azuma, Takashi ^b   Kimura, Toru ^a   Fukuyama, Hidenao ^c  

^a RAKUWAKAI OTOWA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Encoding; Face; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Gender; Recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SEX DIFFERENCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; VISION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955860771     PISSN: 19317557     EISSN: 19317565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-009-9085-0     Document Type: Article

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