On hemispheric specialisation and visual field effects in the perception of print: A comment on Jordan, Patching, and Thomas.
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Introduction Due to structural characteristics of the visual pathways, stimuli that are presented in the right half of the visual field (RVF) are initially projected to the left cerebral hemisphere, while those presented in the left half of the visual field (LVF) are projected to the right cerebral hemisphere. This anatomical feature has frequently been taken to support the notion that the well-documented RVF advantage in recognising printed words is a reflection of functional differences between the two hemispheres; notably that of the dominance of the left hemisphere for processing language. Word stimuli that are sent straight to the left hemisphere are believed to profit from more efficient processing than those sent initially to the right hemisphere, because the latter stimuli must follow a longer and more noisy pathway before reaching the language-dominant hemisphere. In the work by Jordan, Patching, and Thomas (2003) the above notion is further developed to speculate that the point of entry of visual information into the cortex may determine the procedure that will underlie the ensuing word recognition process: "... the left hemisphere can process words by mapping orthographic information in parallel onto lexical entries whereas the right hemisphere has a more rudimentary process, that can only map orthographic information sequentially" (p. 50).
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Cognitive neuropsychology
دوره 20 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003