Lateralised visual attention is unrelated to language lateralisation, and not influenced by task difficulty - A functional transcranial Doppler study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 810-815

  Rosch, Richard E ^a   Bishop, Dorothy V M ^b   Badcock, Nicholas A ^b  

^a MAGDALEN COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebral laterality; Difficulty; Functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound (fTCD); Landmark task; Verbal fluency; Visuospatial attention; Word generation task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EYE DOMINANCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858449864     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.01.015     Document Type: Article

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