Neural correlates of exposure to subliminal and supraliminal sexual cues

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 924-936

  Gillath, Omri ^a   Canterberry, Melanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal; Priming; Regulation; Sex; Subliminal; Supraliminal

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICS; VASCULARIZATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870200106     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsr065     Document Type: Article

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