Hemispheric metacontrol and cerebral dominance in healthy individuals investigated by means of chimeric faces

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 513-525

  Urgesi, Cosimo ^a   Bricolo, Emanuela ^b   Aglioti, Salvatore M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cerebral dominance; Chimeric face; Hemispheric metacontrol; Hemispheric specialization; Interhemispheric interaction; Unconscious processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; FACE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TACHISTOSCOPY;

ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 23644442435     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.03.005     Document Type: Article

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