Split fovea theory and the role of the two cerebral hemispheres in reading: A review of the evidence

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 353-365

  Ellis, Andrew W ^a   Brysbaert, Marc ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hemispheres; Macular sparing; Reading; Split fovea; Visual field; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; CHINESE; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE FIXATION; HEMIANOPIA; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL TASK; READING; RETINA FOVEA; REVIEW; SPLIT BRAIN; SPLIT FOVEA THEORY; THEORY; VISION; WORD RECOGNITION;

CEREBRUM; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 72449176322     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.08.021     Document Type: Review

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