The right hand draws the trees, but the left draws the forest?

Behavioural Neurology

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 55-60

  Kleinman, Jonathan T ^a,b   Gupta, Amitabh ^c,d,e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Double dissociation; Visuospatial processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; LEFT HANDEDNESS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; BEHAVIOR; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATHOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; VISION;

CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 67650469746     PISSN: 09534180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/BEN-2008-0209     Document Type: Article

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