Reliability of a novel paradigm for determining hemispheric lateralization of visuospatial function

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1028-1032

  Whitehouse, Andrew J O ^a,b,c   Badcock, Nicholas ^b   Groen, Margriet A ^b   Bishop, Dorothy V M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cerebral lateralization; Functional transcranial Doppler ultrasonography; Reliability; Reproducibility; Spatial memory; Visuospatial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 72749087501     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617709990555     Document Type: Article

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