Hemispheric dominance for mental rotation: It is a matter of time

NeuroReport

Volumn 20, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 1507-1512

  Milivojevic, Branka ^a,b   Hamm, Jeff P ^b   Corballis, Michael C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

EEG; Event related potential; Evoked potentials; Hemispheric asymmetries; Mental rotation; Right hemisphere; Right parietal; Visual evoked sensory potential

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTRODE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS CONTROL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75149179159     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32832ea6fd     Document Type: Article

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