The nature and contribution of space- and object-based attentional biases to free-viewing perceptual asymmetries

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 384-393

  Orr, Catherine A ^a   Nicholls, Michael E R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Left; Neglect; Pseudoneglect; Right

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 17744364056     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-004-2196-3     Document Type: Article

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