The relation between experience and spatial performance in men and women

Sex Roles

Volumn 43, Issue 11-12, 2000, Pages 891-915

  Voyer, Daniel ^a   Nolan, Carla ^b   Voyer, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 23044527329     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1011041006679     Document Type: Article

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