Hemispheric differences in the activation of perceptual information during sentence comprehension

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 397-405

  Lincoln, Amy E ^a   Long, Debra L ^b,c   Baynes, Kathleen ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^d VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemispheric differences; Language comprehension; Laterality; Perceptual symbol

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 37349034757     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.06.010     Document Type: Article

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