Sex-Differences of Face Coding: Evidence from Larger Right Hemispheric M170 in Men and Dipole Source Modelling

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Tiedt, Hannes O ^a   Weber, Joachim E ^a   Pauls, Alfred ^a   Beier, Klaus M ^a   Lueschow, Andreas ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; DIPOLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FACE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879912787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069107     Document Type: Article

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