Finger, sex, and side differences in fingertip size and lack of association with image-based digit ratio (2D:4D) measurements

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 507-512

  Voracek, Martin ^a   Pietschnig, Jakob ^a   Oeckher, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOMPUTER; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 57449113080     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.107.2.507-512     Document Type: Article

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