Sex-sensitive tasks in men and women: A search for performance fluctuations across the menstrual cycle

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1304-1317

  Epting, L Kimberly ^a,b   Overman, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUTEAL PHASE; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OVULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MOTOR SKILLS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0032420904     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.112.6.1304     Document Type: Article

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