The greyscales task: A perceptual measure of attentional bias following unilateral hemispheric damage

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 387-394

  Mattingley, Jason B ^a   Berberovic, Nadja ^a   Corben, Louise ^b   Slavin, Melissa J ^c   Nicholls, Michael E R ^a   Bradshaw, John L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Cancellation; Line bisection; Neuropsychological assessment; Pseudoneglect; Spatial neglect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; GREYSCALE TASK; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEGLECT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREDICTION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0344256434     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2003.07.007     Document Type: Article

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