The naked truth: The face and body sensitive N170 response is enhanced for nude bodies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Hietanen, Jari K ^a   Nummenmaa, Lauri ^b,c  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAR; CLOTHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SELF EVALUATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISIBILITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; ART; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; LEISURE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUALITY; VISION;

ADULT; AGED; AROUSAL; AUTOMOBILES; CLOTHING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUDISM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEX FACTORS; SEXUALITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81155131686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024408     Document Type: Article

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