The divided visual world paradigm: Eye tracking reveals hemispheric asymmetries in lexical ambiguity resolution

Behavioural and Neuroimaging Evidence for Hemispheric Asymmetries in Face Processing Using Divided Visual Field Presentations

Putting lexical constraints in context into the visual-world paradigm.

Prior eye-tracking studies of spoken sentence comprehension have found that the presence of two potential referents, e.g., two frogs, can guide listeners toward a Modifier interpretation of Put the frog on the napkin... despite strong lexical biases associated with Put that support a Goal interpretation of the temporary ambiguity (Tanenhaus, M. K., Spivey-Knowlton, M. J., Eberhard, K. M. & Sedi...

Hemispheric sensitivities to lexical and contextual information: evidence from lexical ambiguity resolution.

The present study examined the manner in which both hemispheres utilize prior semantic context and relative meaning frequency during the processing of homographs. Participants read sentences biased toward the dominant or the subordinate meaning of their final homograph, or unbiased neutral sentences, and performed a lexical decision task on lateralized targets presented 250ms after the onset of...

The divided visual field paradigm: methodological considerations.

The divided visual field methodology has been used to examine a wide variety of lateralised processes. When conducting such studies it is important to employ a number of strict controls in order to maximise the effectiveness of the paradigm for examining the processing of stimuli by each hemisphere. The use of these controls is discussed in this paper. The following issues are discussed: select...

Behavioral evidence for inter-hemispheric cooperation during a lexical decision task: a divided visual field experiment

HIGHLIGHTSThe redundant bilateral visual presentation of verbal stimuli decreases asymmetry and increases the cooperation between the two hemispheres.The increased cooperation between the hemispheres is related to semantic information during lexical processing.The inter-hemispheric interaction is represented by both inhibition and cooperation. This study explores inter-hemispheric interaction (...