Differences between left- and right-hand reaction time rhythms: Indications of shifts in strategies of human brain activity

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 141-146

  Shub, Yosi ^a   Ashkenazi, Israel E ^a   Reinberg, Alain ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Unite de Chronobiologie   (France)

Author keywords

Biological rhythm; Brain hemisphere; Laterality; Performance; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FLIGHT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0031443755     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(97)00025-6     Document Type: Article

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