Bisecting and behavior: Lateral inattention predicts 8-week academic performance

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 17-24

  Drake, Roger A ^a  

^a WESTERN STATE COLORADO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036422878     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-2626(02)00006-4     Document Type: Article

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