Egocentric reference in bidirectional readers as measured by the straight-ahead pointing task

Brain Research

Volumn 1247, Issue , 2009, Pages 133-141

  Kazandjian, Seta ^a,b   Dupierrix, Eve ^a   Gaash, Esther ^c   Love, Itamar Y ^c   Zivotofsky, Ari Z ^c   De Agostini, Maria ^d   Chokron, Sylvie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

^b Service de Neurologie   (France)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Cross cultural difference; Egocentric reference; Reading habit Bidirectional reading; Spatial organization

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIDIRECTIONAL READING; BODY MOVEMENT; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EGOCENTRIC REFERENCE; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; READING; REFERENCE MEMORY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

ADULT; ARM; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57549114268     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.09.098     Document Type: Article

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