Response selection and attention orienting a computational model of Simon effect asymmetries

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 274-282

  Spironelli, Chiara ^a,b   Tagliabue, Mariaelena ^a   Umiltà, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Department of General Psychology ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain specialization; Dual route model; Lateralization; Spatial attention; Spatial compatibility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; CONFLICT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 67649525672     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.56.4.274     Document Type: Article

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