Right hemisphere dominance for attention: The mechanism underlying hemispheric asymmetries of inattention (neglect)

Neurology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1980, Pages 327-330

  Heilman, Kenneth M ^a   Van Den Abell, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE;

EID: 0018901267     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.30.3.327     Document Type: Article

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