Effects of precuing horizontal and vertical dimensions on right-left prevalence

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 949-958

  Proctor, Robert W ^a,e   Koch, Iring ^b,d   Vu, Kim Phuong L ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33749588855     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193440     Document Type: Article

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