Young women do it better: Sexual dimorphism in temporal discrimination

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn 6, Issue JUL, 2015, Pages

  Williams, Laura Jane ^a,b   Butler, John S ^c   Molloy, Anna ^a,b   McGovern, Eavan ^a,b   Beiser, Ines ^a,b   Kimmich, Okka ^a,b   Quinlivan, Brendan ^c   O'Riordan, Sean ^a,b   Hutchinson, Michael ^a,b   Reilly, Richard B ^c,d  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Adult onset dystonia; Covert attention; Movement disorders; Sexual dimorphism; Superior colliculus; Temporal discrimination

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84940041166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2015.00160     Document Type: Article

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