Bilateral field advantage in visual enumeration

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Delvenne, Jean François ^a   Castronovo, Julie ^a,b   Demeyere, Nele ^c   Humphreys, Glyn W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILATERAL VISUAL FIELD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTEGRATION; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RETINA; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNILATERAL VISUAL FIELD; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952916404     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017743     Document Type: Article

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