Sex differences in object location memory

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 334-345

  Postma, Albert ^a   Izendoorn, Roelanda ^a   De Haan, Edward H F ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0031866968     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brcg.1997.0974     Document Type: Article

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