Unimanual SNARC effect: Hand matters

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue DEC, 2011, Pages

  Riello, Marianna ^a   Rusconi, Elena ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fingers; Magnitude; Numbers; Parity; Spatial numerical association of response codes; Unimanual SNARC

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867063707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00372     Document Type: Article

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