Interhemispheric transfer and integration of imagined visual stimuli

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 803-809

  Savazzi, S ^a   Mancini, F ^a   Marzi, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Imagery; Poffenberger paradigm; Reaction time; Redundancy gain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; PERCEPTION; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 39049135624     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.07.026     Document Type: Article

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