The right visual field advantage and the optimal viewing position effect: On the relation between foveal and parafoveal word recognition

Neuropsychology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 385-395

  Brysbaert, Marc ^a,b   Vitu, Françoise ^a   Schroyens, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL FIELD; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 15844377440     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.10.3.385     Document Type: Article

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