The increased sex differences in susceptibility to emotional stimuli during adolescence: an event-related potential study

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Yang, Jiemin ^a   Zhang, Shu ^a   Lou, Yixue ^a   Long, Quanshan ^a   Liang, Yu ^a   Xie, Shixue ^a   Yuan, Jiajin ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Emotional sensitivity; Event related potentials; Pubertal development; Sex difference

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL AMPLITUDE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATE POSITIVE POTENTIAL; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD; NEGATIVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITIVE STIMULATION; PREPUBERTY; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX INTERACT; SEXUALITY; STIMULATION; STUDENT; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 85041340671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00660     Document Type: Article

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