Correlation between hand preference and distance of focusing points of two eyes in the horizontal plane

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1141-1147

  Dane, Şenol ^a   Gümüştekin, Kenan ^a  

^a ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Eye dominance; Human; Left handedness; Right handedness

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EYE DOMINANCE; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 0036803276     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207450290026111     Document Type: Article

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