The advantage of mentally rotating clockwise

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 101-110

  Liesefeld, Heinrich R ^a   Zimmer, Hubert D ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clockwise vs. counterclockwise; Event related brain potentials; Mental rotation; Parity judgment task; Rotation related negativity; Rotational asymmetry; Slow waves; Speed of rotation; Strategies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL ROTATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; JUDGMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 79151471424     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2010.10.012     Document Type: Article

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