Developmental aspects of parietal hemispheric asymmetry during mental rotation

NeuroReport

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 175-178

  Jansen Osmann, Petra ^a   Heil, Martin ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Event related potentials; Laterality; Mental rotation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; CHILD; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33847020037     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328010ff6b     Document Type: Article

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