Motivation and motor control: Hemispheric specialization for approach motivation reverses with handedness

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Brookshire, Geoffrey ^a,b   Casasanto, Daniel ^a,b,c  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND FUNCTION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION;

EID: 84860371198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036036     Document Type: Article

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