How does interhemispheric communication in visual word recognition work? Deciding between early and late integration accounts of the split fovea theory

Brain and Language

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 112-121

  Van der Haegen, Lise ^a,b   Brysbaert, Marc ^a   Davis, Colin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Foveal split; Interhemispheric transfer; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRUM; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FOVEA CENTRALIS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 58549101273     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.06.005     Document Type: Article

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