The Split Fovea Theory and the Leicester critique: What do the data say?

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 96-106

  Van der Haegen, Lise ^a   Drieghe, Denis ^a   Brysbaert, Marc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Interhemispheric transfer; Laterality; Split Fovea Theory; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY; VALIDITY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FOVEA CENTRALIS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL FIELDS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71549125867     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.08.014     Document Type: Article

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