Asymmetries in motor attention during a cued bimanual reaching task: Left and right handers compared

Cortex

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 432-440

  Buckingham, Gavin ^a,b   Main, Julie C ^a   Carey, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Bimanual coordination; Handedness; Intention; Laterality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WATERLOO HANDEDNESS QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79851513524     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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