Right-left discrimination in younger and older children measured with two tests containing stimuli on different abstraction levels

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 94, Issue 3 PART 1, 2002, Pages 707-719

  Ofte, Sonja H ^b   Hugdahl, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0036599567     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2002.94.3.707     Document Type: Article

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