Right hemispheric dominance in gaze-triggered reflexive shift of attention in humans

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 128-133

  Okada, Takashi ^a,b   Sato, Wataru ^a   Toichi, Motomi ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attention; Gaze; Hemispheric dominance; Unilateral visual field presentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAZE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; REFLEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33749665996     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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