The calculating hemispheres: Studies of a split-brain patient

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2378-2386

  Funnell, Margaret G ^a   Colvin, Mary K ^a   Gazzaniga, Michael S ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Calculation; Callosotomy; Hemisphere; Laterality; Mathematics; Number processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPLIT BRAIN;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPLIT-BRAIN PROCEDURE;

EID: 34247579107     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.01.017     Document Type: Article

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