Benefits of interhemispheric collaboration can be eliminated by mixing stimulus formats that involve different cortical access routes

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 145-158

  Patel, Urvi J ^a   Hellige, Joseph B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Divided visual field; Interhemispheric collaboration; Interhemispheric cooperation; Interhemispheric interaction; Interhemispheric transfer; Matching task; Numeric quantity stimuli

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; ADOLESCENT; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REFERENCE VALUE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33846669384     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2006.10.007     Document Type: Article

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