Egocentric and object-based transformations in the laterality judgement of human and animal faces and of non-corporeal objects

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 452-457

  Ionta, Silvio ^a,b   Fourkas, Alissa D ^a   Aglioti, Salvatore M ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body representation; Face inversion effect; Mental imagery; Mental rotation; Mental spatial transformations; Postural constraints

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRACE; CIRCLING BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DOMINANCE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; FACE; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; STRIGIFORMES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74449089718     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.10.037     Document Type: Article

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