Divided visual attention in psychopathic and nonpsychopathic offenders

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 373-391

  Kosson, David S ^a,b  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation; Cognition; Divided attention; Hemispheric asymmetry; Psychopathy; Selective attention; Sociopathy; Visual field

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032013771     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(97)00176-1     Document Type: Article

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