Chapter 9 The relation between left-right and upper-lower visual field asymmetries. or: What goes up goes right, while what's left lays low

Advances in Psychology

Volumn 123, Issue C, 1997, Pages 263-296

  Christman, Stephen D ^a   Niebauer, Christopher L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4115(97)80076-3     Document Type: Chapter

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