Neural markers of opposite-sex bias in face processing

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2010, Pages

  Proverbio, Alice Mado ^a   Riva, Federica ^a   Martin, Eleonora ^a   Zani, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body awareness; Erps; Face coding; Hemispheric asymmetry; Self representation; Sex differences; Social cognition; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866787308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00169     Document Type: Article

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