Opposite visual field asymmetries for egocentric and allocentric spatial judgments

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1303-1305

  Sdoia, Stefano ^a   Couyoumdjian, Alessandro ^a   Ferlazzo, Fabio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Allocentric; Egocentric; Spatial frame of references; Visual anisotropy; Visual field

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE TRACT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 2942532528     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000125776.27645.c4     Document Type: Article

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