The two sides of the mental clock: The Imaginal Hemispatial Effect in the healthy brain

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 298-305

  Conson, Massimiliano ^a   Cinque, Fausta ^a   Trojano, Luigi ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mental clocks; Parietal lobe; Spatial imagery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; IMAGINAL HEMISPATIAL EFFECT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 39749201707     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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