Exploring number space by random digit generation

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 180, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 655-665

  Loetscher, Tobias ^a   Brugger, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dual task; Pseudoneglect; Random number generation; Representation of space

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34250847106     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-0889-0     Document Type: Article

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