Pause before you respond: Handedness influences response style on the Tower of Hanoi task

Laterality

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 133-147

  Wright, Lynn ^a   Hardie, Scott M ^a   Rodway, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECORDING; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; SEX FACTORS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 1942540469     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500244000265     Document Type: Article

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