A neuropsychologic profile of homosexual and heterosexual men and women

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 91-108

  Wegesin, Domonick J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Homosexuality; Lexical decision; Mental rotation; Psychosexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LESBIAN; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPACE PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031892825     PISSN: 00040002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018661925976     Document Type: Article

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