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Biological sex and sexual arousal

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

A meta-analysis finds that in 61 neuroimaging studies involving 1,850 people, participants' biological sex failed to predict brain responses to visual sexual stimuli, challenging previous assumptions that men and women respond to visual stimuli differently, according to the authors.

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Article #19-04975: "Neural substrates of sexual arousal are not sex dependent," by Ekaterina Mitricheva, Rui Kimura, Nikos Logothetis, and Hamid R. Noori.

MEDIA CONTACT: Hamid R. Noori, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, GERMANY; e-mail: hamid.noori@tuebingen.mpg.de


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