Evidence for gender differences in visual selective attention

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 597-609

  Merritt, Paul ^a   Hirshman, Elliot ^b   Wharton, Whitney ^b   Stangl, Bethany ^b   Devlin, James ^a   Lenz, Alan ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender differences; Selective attention; Spatial cueing

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147144613     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.01.016     Document Type: Article

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