Lateralization of spatial categories: A comparison of verbal and visuospatial categorical relations

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 582-590

  Van Der Ham, Ineke J M ^a   Postma, Albert ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956493579     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.5.582     Document Type: Article

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