Is access to the body structural description sensitive to a body part's significance for action and cognition? A study of the sidedness effect using feet

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 218, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 515-525

  Tessari, Alessia ^a   Ottoboni, Giovanni ^a   Baroni, Giulia ^a   Symes, Ed ^b   Nicoletti, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body parts coding; Body representation; Feet representation; Sidedness Effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY REGIONS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOT; GESTURE; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOOT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONAL SPACE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862840805     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3045-4     Document Type: Article

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