Sex differences in callosal transfer and hemispheric specialization for face coding

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2325-2332

  Proverbio, Alice Mado ^a   Mazzara, Roberta ^a   Riva, Federica ^a   Manfredi, Mirella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Face coding; Gender; Hemispheric asymmetry; Inter hemispheric transfer time (IHTT); Sex difference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE CODING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTER HEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863870641     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.05.036     Document Type: Article

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