Effects of retinal eccentricity on the lateralized processing of categorical and coordinate spatial relations

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 7-13

  Horner, Michael David ^a,c   Freides, David ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

categorical; coordinate; hemispheric assymetry; neuropsychology; spatial relations; visual information processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030186145     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00207459608986693     Document Type: Article

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