Self-awareness and the left hemisphere: The dark side of selectively reviewing the literature

Cortex

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1068-1073

  Morin, Alain ^a  

^a MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECISION MAKING; DOWN SYNDROME; EMOTIONALITY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LIMBIC CORTEX; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 35948972096     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70704-4     Document Type: Note

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