Crossing the hands is more confusing for females than males

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 204, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 431-446

  Cadieux, Michelle L ^a   Barnett Cowan, Michael ^b,c   Shore, David I ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crossed hands; Egocentric; Gravity perception; Reference frame; Rod and frame; Sex difference; Temporal order judgments; Touch; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSED HAND DEFICIT; EXTERNAL REFERENCE FRAME; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; GRAVITY SENSING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROD AND FRAME TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; TACTILE TEMPRORAL ORDER JUDGMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY POSTURE; DECISION MAKING; HAND; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STIMULATION; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY IMAGE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POSTURE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VIBRATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958184721     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2268-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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