Neural activation during anticipation of opposite-sex and same-sex faces in heterosexual men and women

NeuroImage

Volumn 66, Issue , 2013, Pages 223-231

  Spreckelmeyer, Katja N ^a,b   Rademacher, Lena ^a,b   Paulus, Frieder M ^a,b,c   Gründer, Gerhard ^a,b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JARA   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mating; NAcc; Sex differences; Sexual preference; Social cognition; Social reward

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN REGION; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HETEROSEXUAL FEMALE; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INCENTIVE DELAY TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HETEROSEXUALITY; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FACE; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REWARD; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870005711     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.10.068     Document Type: Article

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