Hemispheric asymmetry for visual information processing

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 485-497

  Hellige, Joseph B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

hemispheric asymmetry; laterality; spatial frequency; vision

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; VISUAL SYSTEM;

BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0029978329     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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