Blind individuals show pseudoneglect in bisecting numerical intervals

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1021-1028

  Cattaneo, Zaira ^a   Fantino, Micaela ^b   Silvanto, Juha ^c   Tinti, Carla ^d   Vecchi, Tomaso ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blindness; Mental number line; Numerical cognition; Pseudoneglect; Spatial representation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLINDNESS; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BLINDNESS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; JUDGMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955820518     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0094-x     Document Type: Article

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