Asymmetrical hemisphere activation enhances global-local processing

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 337-341

  Gable, Philip A ^a   Poole, Bryan D ^a   Cook, Mary S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Global local; Hemisphere asymmetry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GLOBAL LOCAL PROCESSING; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION;

ATTENTION; GLOBAL-LOCAL; HEMISPHERE ASYMMETRY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886052862     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2013.09.012     Document Type: Article

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