Cortex
Volume 47, Issue 4 , Pages 432-440 , April 2011

Asymmetries in motor attention during a cued bimanual reaching task: Left and right handers compared

  • Gavin Buckingham

      Affiliations

    • Vision Research Laboratories, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, UK
    • Group on Action and Perception, Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
    • ,
  • Julie C. Main

      Affiliations

    • Vision Research Laboratories, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, UK
    • ,
  • David P. Carey

      Affiliations

    • Vision Research Laboratories, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.

Received 16 July 2009 ,Revised 5 October 2009 ,Accepted 13 November 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.11.003

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Volume 47, Issue 4 , Pages 432-440 , April 2011

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