Sex differences in the response to emotional distraction: An event-related fMRI investigation

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 116-134

  Iordan, Alexandru D ^a   Dolcos, Sanda ^a   Denkova, Ekaterina ^b   Dolcos, Florin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Dorsolateral ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC vlPFC); Emotional interference; Fusiform face area (FFA); Social anxiety; Subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sgACC)

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84873845946     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-012-0134-6     Document Type: Article

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