Visual temporal asymmetries are related to asymmetries in linguistic perception

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1243-1249

  Elias, Lorin J ^a   Bulman Fleming, M B ^b   McManus, I C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0032829356     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(99)00028-7     Document Type: Article

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