Why word length only matters in the left visual field

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1680-1688

  Whitney, Carol ^a   Lavidor, Michal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational neuroscience; Hemispheric asymmetry; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PHENOMENOLOGY; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 4344709574     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.04.007     Document Type: Article

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