The effects of gender, menstrual phase and practice on the perceived location of the midsagittal plane

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 717-724

  McCourt, Mark E ^a   Mark, Victor W ^b   Radonovich, Krestin J ^a   Willison, Suzann K ^a   Freeman, Pierre ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Southeast Campus   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Menstrual phase; Pseudoneglect; Space bisection

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LUTEAL PHASE; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PROPRIOCEPTION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; ORIENTATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0030902939     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(96)00115-7     Document Type: Article

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