Strategies of semantic categorization in the cerebral hemispheres

Brain and Language

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 341-357

  Koivisto, Mika ^a   Laine, Matti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Categorization; Cerebral dominance; Semantic memory; Visual field

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 0033557054     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1998.2033     Document Type: Article

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