Hemispheric asymmetry in global/local processing: Effects of stimulus position and spatial frequency

NeuroImage

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1290-1299

  Han, Shihui ^a   Weaver, Janelle A ^b   Murray, Scott O ^b   Kang, Xiaojian ^b   Yund, E William ^b   Woods, David L ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compound stimulus; Contrast balancing; fMRI; Global local processing; Hemispheric asymmetry; Occipital cortex; Spatial frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0036431342     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.2002.1255     Document Type: Article

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