Visual letter matching: Hemispheric functioning or scanning biases?

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1412-1428

  Fecteau, Jillian H ^a,b   Enns, James T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 21244456325     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.01.006     Document Type: Article

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