Investigating hemispheric lateralization of reflexive attention to gaze and arrow cues

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 361-366

  Marotta, Andrea ^a,b   Lupiáñez, Juan ^b   Casagrande, Maria ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arrow cue; Gaze cue; Hemispheric specialization; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; GAZE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEXIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; REFLEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868482201     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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