Selective Sexual Orientation-Related Differences in Object Location Memory

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 625-633

  Hassan, Bano ^a   Rahman, Qazi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

childhood gender nonconformity; metric positional memory; object location memory; prenatal androgens; sexual orientation

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FINGER; HETEROSEXUAL FEMALE; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; OBJECT MANIPULATION; OBJECT RELATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL ORIENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548852641     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.121.3.625     Document Type: Article

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