Lateral and vertical attentional biases in normal individuals

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1415-1424

  Drago, Valeria ^a,b   Foster, Paul S ^a   Webster, Daniel G ^c   Crucian, Gregory P ^d   Heilman, Kenneth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b OASI RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRCCS   (Italy)

^c GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Attention; Intention; Pseudoneglect; Right hemisphere; Spatial bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548301764     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: 15635279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207450601123589     Document Type: Article

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