Visual aesthetic preference: Effects of handedness, sex, and age-related reading/writing directional scanning experience

Writing Systems Research

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 77-85

  De Agostini, Maria ^a   Kazandjian, Seta ^b   Cavézian, Céline ^b   Lellouch, Joseph ^a   Chokron, Sylvie ^b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b ERT TREAT Vision   (France)

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EID: 79952094413     PISSN: 17586801     EISSN: 1758681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wsr/wsq006     Document Type: Article

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