Assessing effects of stimulus orientation on perception of lateralized words and nonwords

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1693-1702

  Jordan, Timothy R ^a   Patching, Geoffrey R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hemispheric asymmetry; Orientation; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0042344807     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(02)00326-3     Document Type: Article

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