Maximizing the bilateral field advantage on verbal and nonverbal matching tasks

Cortex

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 131-141

  Ludwig, T E ^a   Jeeves, M A ^b  

^a HOPE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0029867587     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(96)80022-0     Document Type: Article

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