The laterality effect: Myth or truth?

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 350-354

  Cohen Kadosh, Roi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Distance effect; Intentional; Numerical processing; Size congruity effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; POST HOC ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AUTOMATISM; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; REACTION TIME; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 40749132231     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2007.03.008     Document Type: Article

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