Dual-task interference in right- and left-handers: Typical laterality patterns are obtained despite reversal of baseline asymmetries

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-68

  Caroselli, Jerome S ^a   Hiscock, Merrill ^b   Bullock, Ryan ^b  

^a TIRR MEMORIAL HERMANN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Concurrent tasks; Handedness; Interference; Lateralization; Timesharing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CALCULATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTEER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FINGER; MATHEMATICS; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REFERENCE VALUE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MOTOR SKILLS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PROBLEM SOLVING; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 33646157501     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70322-8     Document Type: Article

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