Sex differences in the neuromagnetic cortical response to biological motion

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3468-3474

  Pavlova, Marina A ^a   Sokolov, Alexander N ^a   Bidet Ildei, Christel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Dynamic topography; Gender; MEG; Neural circuitry; Point light displays; Sex differences; Social brain; Time course

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LOCOMOTION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY SYSTEM; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84948671494     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu175     Document Type: Article

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