Touch and personality: Extraversion predicts somatosensory brain response

NeuroImage

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 432-438

  Schaefer, Michael ^a   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^a   Rotte, Michael ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extraversion; MEG; Personality; Somatosensory cortex; Touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPOLE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; FINGER; FIVE FACTOR MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMAGNETIC SOURCE IMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE STIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOUCH;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 84861654092     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.05.004     Document Type: Article

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