The contribution of attention to the right visual field advantage for word recognition

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 339-357

  Nicholls, Michael E R ^a   Wood, Amanda G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Cueing; Early selection; Late selection; Lateralization; Left hemisphere; Right hemisphere

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032439409     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brcg.1998.1052     Document Type: Article

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