Sex differences in cognitive functions

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 863-875

  Weiss, Elisabeth M ^a   Kemmler, Georg ^a   Deisenhammer, Eberhard A ^a   Fleischhacker, W Wolfgang ^a   Delazer, Margarete ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cognitive functions; Gender; Self estimation; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037854203     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00288-X     Document Type: Article

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