A failure to produce a left hemisphere advantage through verbal priming

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 893-904

  Nicholls, Michael E R ^a   Clode, Danielle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Attention; Laterality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; VISUAL FIELD; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0029953766     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0028-3932(96)00004-8     Document Type: Article

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