Sex differences in interhemispheric communication during face identity encoding: Evidence from ERPs

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 58-66

  Godard, Ornella ^a,b   Leleu, Arnaud ^c,d,e   Rebaï, Mohamed ^c   Fiori, Nicole ^b  

^a CENTRE DES SCIENCES DU GOÛT ET DE L ALIMENTATION   (France)

^b Sorbonne Paris Cité   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^d INSTITUT DES SCIENCES COGNITIVES   (France)

^e CENTRE HOSPITALIER LE VINATIER   (France)

Author keywords

Divided visual field paradigm; Face identity encoding; Hemispheric communication; Hemispheric specialization; N170 IHTTs; Sex related differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDENTITY; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84884704775     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: 18728111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2013.03.005     Document Type: Article

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