The neural mechanism underlying the female advantage in identifying negative emotions: An event-related potential study

• Published in: NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) Vol. 40; no. 4; pp. 1921 - 1929
• Main Authors: Li, Hong, Yuan, Jiajin, Lin, Chongde
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.05.2008; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Brain; College students; Electroencephalography; Emotional negativity bias; Emotions; Emotions - physiology; ERP; Evoked Potentials - physiology; Female; Gender differences; Humans; Male; Photic Stimulation; Prefrontal Cortex - physiology; Psychomotor Performance - physiology; Reaction Time - physiology; Right prefrontal cortex; Sex Characteristics; Social Perception; Teaching methods; Right prefrontal cortex; Emotional negativity bias; ERP; Gender differences

Previous studies have extensively reported an advantage of females in identifying negative facial emotions as compared with males. Nevertheless, why females are better in performance relative to males during emotion recognition tasks is still unknown, and the neural mechanism(s) underlying this phen...