Influence of word class proportion on cerebral asymmetries for high- and low-imagery words

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-38

  Chiarello, Christine ^a   Shears, Connie ^a   Liu, Stella ^a   Kacinik, Natalie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; VOCABULARY;

EID: 11144295189     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2004.08.024     Document Type: Article

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