Hemispheric asymmetries for spatial frequency discrimination in a selective attention task

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 311-320

  Proverbio, Alice Mado ^c   Zani, Alberto ^a   Avella, Carmela ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Ist Superiore di Educazione Fisica   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0344280643     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brcg.1997.0901     Document Type: Article

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