Age and sex differences in neurobehavioral performance: A study of portuguese elementary school children

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1687-1709

  Martins, Isabel Pavão ^a,d   Castro Caldas, Alexandre ^a   Townes, Brenda D ^b   Ferreira, Goretty ^c   Rodrigues, Pedro ^c   Marques, Susana ^c   Rosebaum, Gail ^b   Benton, Tonya S ^e   Leitão, Jorge ^c   Derouen, Timothy ^e  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d Centro de Estudos Egas Moniz   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Age and sex differences; Children; Normative data

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COORDINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PORTUGAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PORTUGAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 31544463815     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: 15635279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207450590958556     Document Type: Article

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