Sex differences in judging self-orientation: The morphological horizon and body pitch

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Tremblay, Luc ^a   Elliott, Digby ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OTOLITH; PERCEPTION; ROTATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; GRAVITATION; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; POSTURE; SELF CONCEPT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 33846782973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-8-6     Document Type: Article

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