Examining lateralized semantic access using pictures

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 202-209

  Lovseth, Kyle ^a   Atchley, Ruth Ann ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemispheric difference; Picture processing; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 75149177972     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2009.08.016     Document Type: Article

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