Premenstrual enhancement of snake detection in visual search in healthy women

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Masataka, N ^a   Shibasaki, M ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; PREMENOPAUSE; SNAKE; VISION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREMENOPAUSE; SNAKES; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84859744613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00307     Document Type: Article

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