The Electrophysiological Underpinnings of Processing Gender Stereotypes in Language

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Siyanova Chanturia, Anna ^a,b   Pesciarelli, Francesca ^a   Cacciari, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84870655035     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048712     Document Type: Article

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