Large visuospatial sex difference in line judgment: Possible role of attentional factors

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-12

  Collaer, Marcia L ^a   Nelson, Joshua D ^a  

^a MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognitive; Euclidian; Gender; Geometry; Landmarks; Line orientation; Sex; Spatial; Visuospatial

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUDGMENT OF LINE ANGLE AND POSITION TEST; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0036270821     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brcg.2001.1321     Document Type: Article

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