Otoacoustic Emissions, Auditory Evoked Potentials, and Traits Related to Sex and Sexual Orientation

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 115-127

  Loehlin, John C ^a   McFadden, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory evoked potentials; Homosexuality; Otoacoustic emissions; Prenatal androgens

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BISEXUALITY; CHILDHOOD; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EXPERIMENT; EYE COLOR; FEMALE; GENDER; HEIGHT; HEREDITY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LITERATURE; MALE; MASCULINITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; PIGMENTATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SEX; SEX ROLE; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION;

ADULT; BISEXUALITY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY;

EID: 0038162481     PISSN: 00040002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022496207882     Document Type: Article

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