Assessing the role of hemispheric specialisation, serial-position processing, and retinal eccentricity in lateralised word recognition

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 49-71

  Jordan, Timothy R ^a   Patching, Geoffrey R ^a   Thomas, Sharon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; REVIEW; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0037295380     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643290244000185     Document Type: Review

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