Hemispheric asymmetry and the mental number line: Comparison of double-digit numbers

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 42, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1927-1933

  Lavidor, Michal ^a   Brinksman, Victoria ^a   Göbel, Silke M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distance effect; Divided visual fields; Magnitude effect; Mental number line

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 4544321988     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.05.003     Document Type: Article

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