Left visual-field advantage in the dual-stream RSVP task and reading-direction: A study in three nations

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2852-2860

  Śmigasiewicz, Kamila ^a   Shalgi, Shani ^b   Hsieh, Shulan ^c   Möller, Friderike ^a   Jaffe, Sagi ^b   Chang, Chi Chih ^d   Verleger, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Hemispheric asymmetry; Rapid Serial Visual Presentation; Visual field

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RAPID SERIAL VISUAL PRESENTATION TASK; READING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955271205     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.05.027     Document Type: Article

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