Approaching stimuli bias attention in numerical space

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 129-132

  Longo, Matthew R ^a   Lourenco, Stella F ^b   Francisco, Alex ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2340 Cognitive Processes; Human Experimental Psychology; Laterality; Looming; Number line; Pseudoneglect

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84861216459     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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