Reflecting upon line bisection: Mirror reversal increases the magnitude of pseudoneglect

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1517-1520

  Brodie, Eric E ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Line bisection; Motor action; Pseudoneglect

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEGLECT; NORMAL HUMAN; PSEUDONEGLECT; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77949773750     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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