Horizontal and vertical pseudoneglect in peri- and extrapersonal space

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 160-166

  Heber, Ines Ann ^a   Siebertz, Sarah ^a   Wolter, Marc ^b   Kuhlen, Torsten ^b   Fimm, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attentional asymmetry; Depth perception; Greyscales; Landmark task; Pseudoneglect; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77954028165     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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