Hemispheric specialisation in haptic processing

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2703-2710

  Tomlinson, Simon P ^a   Davis, Nick J ^a   Morgan, Helen M ^a   Bracewell, R Martyn ^a,b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Handedness; Haptics; Specialisation; Touch

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TOUCH;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; STEREOGNOSIS; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 79960195662     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.05.018     Document Type: Article

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