Gender, facial attractiveness, and early and late event-related potential components

Journal of Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 477-487

  Zhang, Zimu ^a   Deng, Zhidong ^b  

^a TSINGHUA NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cognitive bias; event related potential; Facial attractiveness; gender differences; oddball paradigm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COGNITION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; RESPONSE TIME; REWARD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BEAUTY; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873386854     PISSN: 02196352     EISSN: 1757448X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219635212500306     Document Type: Article

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