Gender difference in event related potentials to masked emotional stimuli in the oddball task

Psychiatry Investigation

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 164-172

  Kim, Eun Young ^a   Lee, Seung Hwan ^a,b   Park, Gewnhi ^a   Kim, Sangrae ^a   Kim, Imyel ^c   Chae, Jeong Ho ^d   Kim, Hyun Taek ^e  

^a Clinical Emotion and Cognition Research Laboratory   (South Korea)

^b Inje University   (South Korea)

^c Department of Psychiatry   (South Korea)

^d The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^e Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

EPN; Gender; N170; Subliminal stimuli; Threat related stimuli

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS;

EID: 84879357348     PISSN: 17383684     EISSN: 19763026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4306/pi.2013.10.2.164     Document Type: Article

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