Sex differences in object location memory: The female advantage of immediate detection of changes

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 234-237

  Honda, Akio ^a   Nihei, Yoshiaki ^b  

^a IWAKI MEISEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Detection of changes; Hunter gatherer theory; Sex differences; Spatial ability

Indexed keywords

EID: 63649083589     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2008.11.005     Document Type: Article

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