Functional hemispheric differences for the categorization of global and local information in naturalistic stimuli

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-18

  Hübner, Ronald ^a   Studer, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global local processing; Hemispheric differences; Hierarchical objects; Visual field effects

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58549106117     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2008.04.009     Document Type: Article

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