The cerebral hemispheres cooperate to perform complex but not simple tasks

Neuropsychology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-59

  Weissman, Daniel H ^a,b   Banich, Marie T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0033979501     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.14.1.41     Document Type: Article

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