Identifying objects in conventional and contorted poses: Contributions of hemisphere-specific mechanisms

Cognition

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-85

  Laeng, Bruno ^a,b   Shah, Jinesh ^a   Kosslyn, Stephen ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Categorical spatial relations; Cerebral lateralization; Object identification; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOANALYSIS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MEMORY;

BRAIN; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0033062336     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(98)00077-8     Document Type: Article

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