Mental Rotation: Effects of Gender, Training and Sleep Consolidation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Debarnot, Ursula ^a,b,c   Piolino, Pascale ^a,b,d   Baron, Jean Claude ^a   Guillot, Aymeric ^c,d  

^a CENTRE DE PSYCHIATRIE ET NEUROSCIENCES   (France)

^b Institut de Psychologie   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL ROTATION; NIGHT SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP TIME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SLEEP; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875429509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060296     Document Type: Article

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