Summation priming and coarse semantic coding in the right hemisphere

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 26-45

  Beeman, Mark ^a   Friedman, Rhonda B ^b   Grafman, Jordan ^c   Perez, Enrique ^c   Diamond, Sherri ^c   Lindsay, Miriam Beadle ^c  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CODING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 0027976592     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.1994.6.1.26     Document Type: Article

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