When the left hand does not know what the left hand is doing: Response mode affects mental rotation of hands

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 228, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 87-95

  Cocksworth, Rebecca L ^a   Punt, T David ^a  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hand laterality; Mental rotation; Motor imagery; Response mode

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HAND; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LIMB; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; ROTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ROTATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879099992     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3540-2     Document Type: Article

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