Functional cerebral lateralization and dual-task efficiency-Testing the function of human brain lateralization using fTCD

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 293-301

  Lust, J M ^a   Geuze, R H ^a   Groothuis, A G G ^a   Bouma, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dual task efficiency; Evolution; Functional transcranial Doppler ultrasonography (fTCD); Landmark task; Language; Parallel processing hypothesis; Visuospatial; Word generation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650414169     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.10.029     Document Type: Article

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