Perception of words and non-words in the upper and lower visual fields

Brain and Language

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 593-600

  Darker, Iain T ^a   Jordan, Timothy R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Reicher Wheeler; Visual field; Word perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RETINA; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PERCEPTION; READING; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 2142669381     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2004.03.002     Document Type: Article

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