Semantic activation within and across the cerebral hemispheres: What's left isn't right

Laterality

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 131-148

  Yochim, Brian P ^a,b   Kender, Robert ^a   Abeare, Christopher ^a   Gustafson, Angela ^a   Whitman, R Douglas ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VISUAL FIELD; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 14944354805     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500342000356     Document Type: Article

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