Handedness and spatial ability: Differential patterns of relationships

Laterality

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 339-358

  Reio Jr , Thomas G ^a   Czarnolewski, Mark ^b   Eliot, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DOMINANCE; FEMALE; FOOT; GENDER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; RATING SCALE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; ROTATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; APTITUDE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL CLOSURE; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 4043181263     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500342000220     Document Type: Article

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