Influences of time and spatial frequency on the perceptual bias: Evidence for competition between hemispheres

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1029-1040

  Niemeier, Matthias ^a,b   Stojanoski, Boge ^a   Greco, Alana L ^a  

^a Department of Life Sciences   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Line bisection; Right hemisphere dominance; Size perception; Spatial neglect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 33845635276     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.09.006     Document Type: Article

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