1. Vowel processing in the left and right visual fields
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C. Umiltà and D. Salmaso
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Left and right ,Linguistics and Language ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Visual perception ,Cognitive Neuroscience ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,Audiology ,Language and Linguistics ,Task (project management) ,Discrimination Learning ,Speech and Hearing ,Phonetics ,Vowel ,Reading (process) ,Reaction Time ,medicine ,Humans ,Discrimination learning ,media_common ,Communication ,business.industry ,Reading ,Laterality ,Visual Perception ,Female ,Visual Fields ,Psychology ,business - Abstract
Two laterality experiments were conducted to assess the performance of the left and right hemispheres in a letter classification task using only vowel pairs. In Experiment I stimuli were presented in a print-like form and neither physical nor name matches yielded hemispheric asymmetries. Experiment II, by using script-like vowels, showed an overall advantage of the right hemisphere for both kinds of match. These findings suggest that physical matches and name matches for print-like vowels are performed by both hemispheres. The right-hemisphere advantage for script-like letters is attributable to the higher-order level of spatial processing required by this material.
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- 1982
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