The centre is not in the middle: Evidence from line and word bisection

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2140-2146

  Arduino, Lisa S ^a,b   Previtali, Paola ^c   Girelli, Luisa ^c  

^a LUMSA UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b ISTC CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Consonant strings and line bisection; Italian words; Pseudoneglect; Pseudowords; Symbols

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; KINETICS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953022522     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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