Right-handers and left-handers have different representations of their own hand

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 185-192

  Gentilucci, Maurizio ^a   Daprati, Elena ^a   Gangitano, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action; Hand representation; Handedness; Human; Mental rotation; Type of grip

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 0031837263     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(97)00034-7     Document Type: Article

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