Human Gender Differences in the Perception of Conspecific Alarm Chemosensory Cues

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Radulescu, Anca R ^a   Mujica Parodi, Lilianne R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b St Francis Hospital The Heart Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHEMOSENSORY PERCEPTION; EMOTION; EXERCISE; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OLFACTORY BULB; PERCEPTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMELLING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRESS; SWEAT;

EID: 84880812979     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068485     Document Type: Article

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