Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 5 , Pages 685-690 , May 2010

Lucky numbers: Spatial neglect affects physical, but not representational, choices in a Lotto task

  • Tobias Loetscher

      Affiliations

    • School of Behavioural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia
    • Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. School of Behavioural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010 Melbourne, Australia.
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  • Michael E.R. Nicholls

      Affiliations

    • School of Behavioural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia
    • ,
  • John N. Towse

      Affiliations

    • Psychology Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
    • ,
  • John L. Bradshaw

      Affiliations

    • School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Australia
    • ,
  • Peter Brugger

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

Received 30 January 2009 ,Revised 18 May 2009 ,Accepted 29 June 2009.

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PII: S0010-9452(09)00206-8

doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.06.010

Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 5 , Pages 685-690 , May 2010

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