The direction of hemispheric asymmetries for object categorization at different levels of abstraction depends on the task

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 197-211

  Studer, Tobias ^a   Hübner, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global local processing; Hemispheric asymmetries; Levels of categorization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; COGNITION; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 44649098923     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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