When does inter-hemispheric integration of visual events emerge in infancy? A developmental study on 19- to 28-month-old infants

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1382-1389

  Liégeois, Frédérique ^a,b   Bentejac, Laurence ^a   De Schonen, Scania ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Brain maturation; Corpus callosum; Infancy; Shape perception; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MATURATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0343953609     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(00)00041-5     Document Type: Article

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