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Visual Information Processing and the Menstrual Cycle

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Cognition and the Menstrual Cycle

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Biological rhythms are time-dependent biological changes that recur at a particular frequency in terms of their duration and in terms of the number of oscillations they comprise. The menstrual cycle is a low-frequency biological rhythm, having a relatively long duration of about 28–30 days, compared with, for instance, medial-frequency circadian rhythms, which have a duration of about 24 hours, or high-frequency rhythms, with a duration of less than half an hour, such as those observed in electroencephalogram and electrocardiogram measurements (Smolensky, 1980).

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Dye, L. (1992). Visual Information Processing and the Menstrual Cycle. In: Richardson, J.T.E. (eds) Cognition and the Menstrual Cycle. Contributions to Psychology and Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9148-7_3

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