Choosing sides: Lateralization in line trisection and quadrisection as a function of reading direction and handedness

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 206-211

  Zivotofsky, Ari Z ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cognition; Hebrew; Hemifield neglect; Line bisection; Neural basis of behavior; Pseudoneglect; Scanning direction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 2942564025     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.03.001     Document Type: Article

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