Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2007 - Volume 30, Issue 02  

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Central role of somatosensory processes in sexual arousal as identified by neuroimaging techniques

Harold Mourasa1

a1 Socioaffective Development Team, Psychology and Educational Sciences Faculty, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland. harold.mouras@pse.unige.ch http://www.unige.ch/fapse/PSY/persons/vief/

Abstract

Research on the neural correlates of sexual arousal is a growing field of research in affective neuroscience. A new approach studying the correlation between the hemodynamic cerebral response and autonomic genital response has enabled distinct brain areas to be identified according to their role in inducing penile erection, on the one hand, and in representing penile sensation, on the other.

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