Seeing only the right half of the forest but cutting down all the trees?

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6688, 1998, Pages 75-78

  Doricchi, Fabrizio ^a,b   Incoccia, Chiara ^a  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VISION; VISUAL DEPRIVATION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; CYGNUS;

EID: 0032474782     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/27913     Document Type: Article

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