The role of high spatial frequencies in hemispheric processing of categorical and coordinate spatial relations

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1576-1582

  Okubo, Matia ^a,b   Michimata, Chikashi ^a  

^a SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; CLASSIFICATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 10144224929     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0898929042568604     Document Type: Article

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