Hemispheric dominance and gender in the perception of an illusion

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1041-1047

  Rasmjou, Shardad ^a   Hausmann, Markus ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gender; Hemispheric dominance; Illusion; Lateralization; Reaction test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEX; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0033021279     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(98)00154-7     Document Type: Article

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