Event-related repetitive TMS reveals distinct, critical roles for right OFA and bilateral posterior STS in judging the sex and trustworthiness of faces

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2782-2796

  Dzhelyova, Milena P ^a   Ellison, Amanda ^b   Atkinson, Anthony P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL FACE AREA; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRUST;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84860390341     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2011.21604     Document Type: Article

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