The enigma of facial asymmetry: Is there a gender-specific pattern of facedness?

Laterality

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 295-304

  Hardie, Scott ^a   Hancock, Peter ^b   Rodway, Paul ^a   Penton Voak, Ian ^b   Carson, Derek ^a   Wright, Lynn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FACE ASYMMETRY; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; RECOGNITION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FACIAL ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 22644436110     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500442000094     Document Type: Article

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