Assessing effects of fixation demands on perception of lateralized words: A visual window technique for studying hemispheric asymmetry

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 686-692

  Jordan, Timothy R ^a   Patching, Geoffrey R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Fixation; Hemispheric asymmetry; Word perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; RETINA; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33644655564     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.08.008     Document Type: Article

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