Bisection performance indicates spatial word representation

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 163-170

  Fischer, Martin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Bisection; Reading; Spatial cognition; Word representation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; READING;

EID: 0030273119     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(96)00029-8     Document Type: Article

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