Word frequency and laterality effects in lexical decision: Right hemisphere mechanisms

Brain and Language

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 421-431

  Voyer, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Divided visual fields; Lateral dominance; Lexical decision; Visual perception; Word frequency effect; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VISUAL FIELD; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0344874216     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00143-3     Document Type: Article

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