Reaction time differences between left- and right-handers during mental rotation of hand pictures

Laterality

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 415-425

  Takeda, Kotaro ^a,b   Shimoda, Nobuaki ^b,c   Sato, Yutaka ^d   Ogano, Misao ^c   Kato, Hiroyuki ^a,b  

^a International University of Health and Welfare   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^d RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Handedness; Mental rotation; Motor simulation; Motor skill; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HAND; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONPARAMETRIC TEST; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954106305     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: 14640678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500902938105     Document Type: Article

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