Hemispheric asymmetries for temporal information processing: Transient detection versus sustained monitoring

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 168-175

  Okubo, Matia ^a,b   Nicholls, Michael E R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b SENSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hemispheric asymmetries; Temporal information processing; Visual half field technique

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CEREBRUM; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 38549149419     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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