Judgment of line orientation depends on gender, education, and type of error

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 116-120

  Caparelli Dáquer, Egas M ^a,b   Oliveira Souza, Ricardo ^a   Moreira Filho, Pedro F ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Education; Error analysis; Gender; Judgment of line orientation; Visuospatial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUDITORY ORIENTATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUDGMENT OF LINE ORIENTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58549110624     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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