On why left events are the right ones: Neural mechanisms underlying the left-hemifield advantage in rapid serial visual presentation

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 474-488

  Verleger, Rolf ^a,d   Sprenger, Andreas ^a   Gebauer, Sina ^a   Fritzmannova, Michaela ^a   Friedrich, Monique ^a   Kraft, Stefanie ^a,b   Jaśkowski, Piotr ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEGLECT; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IDENTIFICATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 63149164865     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21038     Document Type: Article

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