Bilateral processing of redundant information: The influence of stimulus notation and processing speed in number comparison

Cortex

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 207-218

  Ratinckx, Elie ^a   Fias, Wim ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bilateral; Number comparison; Redundant; Stimulus notation; Visual half field

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 33947226034     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70476-3     Document Type: Article

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