Remembering 1500 pictures: The right hemisphere remembers better than the left

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 136-144

  Laeng, Bruno ^a   Øvervoll, Morten ^a   Ole Steinsvik, Oddmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Divided visual fields; Lateralization; Memory; Pictures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FACE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; PAINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPLIT BRAIN; TACHISTOSCOPY; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33846635079     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2006.10.009     Document Type: Article

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