Left face matching bias: Right hemisphere dominance or scanning habits?

Laterality

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 75-92

  Megreya, Ahmed M ^a   Havard, Catriona ^b  

^a Department of English Language and Linguistics   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Face matching; Perceptual bias; Scanning habits

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; FACE; FEMALE; HABIT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; READING;

CEREBRUM; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HABITS; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650278798     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: 14640678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500903213755     Document Type: Article

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