Bilateral symmetry detection: Testing a 'callosal' hypothesis

Perception

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 463-480

  Herbert, Andrew M ^a,b   Humphrey, G Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 0029681786     PISSN: 03010066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/p250463     Document Type: Article

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