Computerizing the mental rotations test: Are gender differences maintained?

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 422-427

  Monahan, John S ^a   Harke, Maureen A ^a   Shelley, Jonathon R ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUE; ROTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; ROTATION; SOFTWARE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 48149092495     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.40.2.422     Document Type: Article

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