Sex differences in how erotic and painful stimuli impair inhibitory control

Cognition

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 251-255

  Yu, Jiaxin ^a,b   Hung, Daisy L ^a,b   Tseng, Philip ^a,b   Tzeng, Ovid J L ^a,c   Muggleton, Neil G ^a,b,d   Juan, Chi Hung ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotion; Response inhibition; Sex difference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE INHIBITORY CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EMOTIONS; EROTICA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PAIN; REACTION TIME; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84862664868     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.04.007     Document Type: Article

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