Citation

Hellige JB, Taylor AK, Eng TL. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 1989; 15(4): 711-722.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089-1061.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2531206

Abstract

Right-handed Ss identified consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) nonsense syllables presented tachistoscopically. The CVC on each trial was presented to the left visual field-right hemisphere (LVF-RH), to the right visual field-left hemisphere (RVF-LH), or the same CVC was presented to both visual fields (bilateral presentation). When recognition was incorrect, the pattern of errors was qualitatively different on LVF-RH and RVF-LH trials, suggesting that each cerebral hemisphere has its own preferred mode of processing the CVC stimuli. The qualitative pattern of errors on bilateral trials was identical to that obtained on LVF-RH trials. The bilateral results are described well by a model that assumes the mode of processing characteristic of the RH dominates on bilateral trials but is applied to both the LVF-RH and RVF-LH stimuli.

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