Sex differences in a landmark environmental re-orientation task only during the learning phase

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 503, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 181-185

  Piccardi, Laura ^a,b   Bianchini, Filippo ^b,c   Iasevoli, Luigi ^d   Giannone, Gianluca ^c   Guariglia, Cecilia ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d Laboratorio di Neuropsicologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gender differences; Human navigation; Morris water maze; Orientation; Place learning; Spatial abilities; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION, OCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053245019     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.08.031     Document Type: Article

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