Developmental changes in visual line bisection in women throughout adulthood

Developmental Neuropsychology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 753-767

  Beste, Christian ^a   Hamm, Jeff P ^b   Hausmann, Markus ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33750312137     PISSN: 87565641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15326942dn3002_6     Document Type: Article

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