Hemispheric sensitivity to body stimuli in simple reaction time

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 116-121

  Aziz Zadeh, Lisa ^a   Iacoboni, Marco ^a,b   Zaidel, Eran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body observation; Hemispheres; Ideomotor compatibility; Laterality; Motor representation; Perception action; Sensory motor integration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33644847273     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0194-8     Document Type: Article

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