Degree of handedness, but not direction, is a systematic predictor of cognitive performance

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue JAN, 2013, Pages

  Prichard, Eric ^a   Propper, Ruth E ^b   Christman, Stephen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief updating; Cognitive flexibility; Episodic memory; Handedness; Interhemispheric interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874695717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00009     Document Type: Review

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