Gender differences in spatial perception of body tilt

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 199-207

  Naylor, Yoko K ^a   McBeath, Michael K ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BODY POSTURE; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; KINESTHESIA; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PROPRIOCEPTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; KINESTHESIS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; POSTURE; PROPRIOCEPTION; SEX FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 42949145595     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PP.70.2.199     Document Type: Article

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