Functional neuroimaging studies of sexual arousal and orgasm in healthy men and women: a review and meta-analysis

S Stoléru, V Fonteille, C Cornélis, C Joyal… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
In the last fifteen years, functional neuroimaging techniques have been used to investigate
the neuroanatomical correlates of sexual arousal in healthy human subjects. In most studies …

Sex differences in response to visual sexual stimuli: A review

HA Rupp, K Wallen - Archives of sexual behavior, 2008 - Springer
This article reviews what is currently known about how men and women respond to the
presentation of visual sexual stimuli. While the assumption that men respond more to visual …

Gender and sexual orientation differences in sexual response to sexual activities versus gender of actors in sexual films.

ML Chivers, MC Seto, R Blanchard - Journal of personality and …, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
In this study, the authors investigated the hypothesis that women's sexual orientation and
sexual responses in the laboratory correlate less highly than do men's because women …

Pleasure rather than salience activates human nucleus accumbens and medial prefrontal cortex

D Sabatinelli, MM Bradley, PJ Lang… - Journal of …, 2007 - journals.physiology.org
Recent human functional imaging studies have linked the processing of pleasant visual
stimuli to activity in mesolimbic reward structures. However, whether the activation is driven …

Sex differences in viewing sexual stimuli: An eye-tracking study in men and women

HA Rupp, K Wallen - Hormones and behavior, 2007 - Elsevier
Men and women exhibit different neural, genital, and subjective arousal responses to visual
sexual stimuli. The source of these sex differences is unknown. We hypothesized that men …

Affective picture perception: gender differences in visual cortex?

D Sabatinelli, T Flaisch, MM Bradley… - …, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Activity in extrastriate visual cortex is greater when people view emotional relative to neutral
pictures. Prior brain imaging and psychophysiological work has further suggested a bias for …

Evolutionary neuromarketing: Darwinizing the neuroimaging paradigm for consumer behavior

JR Garcia, G Saad - Journal of Consumer Behaviour: An …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The current paper serves two purposes. First, it reviews the neuroimaging literature most
relevant to the field of marketing (eg, neuroeconomics, decision neuroscience, and …

The desire disorder in research on sexual orientation in women: Contributions of dynamical systems theory

LM Diamond - Archives of sexual behavior, 2012 - Springer
Over the past decade, numerous studies have documented fundamental differences
between the phenomenology of male and female sexual orientation, largely centering on …

Sex differences in the human visual system

JE Vanston, L Strother - Journal of neuroscience research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This Mini‐Review summarizes a wide range of sex differences in the human visual system,
with a primary focus on sex differences in visual perception and its neural basis. We …

Gender and visibility of sexual cues influence eye movements while viewing faces and bodies

L Nummenmaa, JK Hietanen, P Santtila… - Archives of sexual …, 2012 - Springer
Faces and bodies convey important information for the identification of potential sexual
partners, yet clothing typically covers many of the bodily cues relevant for mating and …