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The assessment and analysis of handedness: The Edinburgh inventory

R.C. Oldfield
- 01 Mar 1971 - 
- Vol. 9, Iss: 1, pp 97-113
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An inventory of 20 items with a set of instructions and response- and computational-conventions is proposed and the results obtained from a young adult population numbering some 1100 individuals are reported.
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This article is published in Neuropsychologia.The article was published on 1971-03-01. It has received 33268 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population.

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On the nature of near space: effects of tool use and the transition to far space.

TL;DR: This study used a line bisection task in healthy adults to investigate the effects of tool use on space perception, and the nature of the transition between near and far space, suggesting that the tool expanded the range of near space.
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Levodopa: faster and better word learning in normal humans.

TL;DR: Levodopa significantly enhanced the speed, overall success, and long‐term retention of novel word learning in a dose‐dependent manner, indicating new ways to potentiate learning inA variety of domains if conventional training alone fails.
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Task-related coherence and task-related spectral power changes during sequential finger movements

TL;DR: The present results indicate an active intercommunication between bilateral and mesial central and prefrontal regions which becomes more intense with more complex sequential movements.
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The cerebral correlates of set-shifting: an fMRI study of the trail making test

TL;DR: The vTMT takes advantage of the set-shifting properties of the TMT and, at the same time, minimizes the visuospatial and visuomotor components of the written TMT.
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Sex differences in regional cerebral blood flow

TL;DR: Regional cerebral blood flow was measured by the 133-xenon inhalation method during resting in 38 healthy men and 38 healthy women matched pairwise for age in the range 18–72 years and showed 11% higher global flow level in the women in all ages.
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The binomial distribution of right, mixed and left-handedness

TL;DR: Right, mixed and left handers are found in binomial proportions in seven samples of varied subjects whose lateral preferences were ascertained by several methods.
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Handedness in musicians

TL;DR: In this article, the authors made an inquiry by means of a questionnaire which included a "handedness inventory" into the prevalence of left-handedness among musicians, and the difficulties, if any, which lefthanders experienced in acquiring executant skills.
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Cerebral Dominance and Its Relation To Psychological Function

Randolph K. Byers
- 01 Mar 1963 - 
TL;DR: It is true that a few cases of this disease are seen from time to time in Australia; but the patients have been immigrants infected in their country of Orkney in the Mediterranean area.
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