The evolutionary origins of functional cerebral asymmetries in humans: Does lateralization enhance parallel processing?

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 297-303

  Hirnstein, Marco ^a   Hausmann, Markus ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dual task; Evolution; Functional cerebral asymmetries; Humans; Parallel processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL CEREBRAL ASYMMETRY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 38049049678     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.09.023     Document Type: Article

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