Common and differential brain responses in men and women to nonverbal emotional vocalizations by the same and opposite sex

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 515, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 157-161

  Chun, Ji Won ^a   Park, Hae Jeong ^a   Park, Il Ho ^b   Kim, Jae Jin ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Kwandong University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Crying; FMRI; Laughter; Limbic system; Sex difference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CRYING; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LAUGHTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84859741621     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.03.038     Document Type: Article

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