Different methods of lexical access for words presented in the left and right visual hemifields☆
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2011, Brain and LanguageCitation Excerpt :The RVF advantage in Experiment 1 was consistent across multiple presentations of the same items (Fig. 1). That stable latency difference is compatible with a structural account of the RVF advantage based on interhemispheric transfer of LVF information from the right hemisphere to the left (Ellis, 2004; Young & Ellis, 1985). Experiment 1 also showed that prior exposure to a small set of experimental words resulted in low error rates (average 1.6%).
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2011, Brain and CognitionCitation Excerpt :There is also evidence of a process of parallel letter access, available to but not mandatory for the left hemisphere, which can be involved not just in passage reading but also in single word recognition under conditions of horizontal presentation, the method of presentation for all seven of the Chiarello et al. tasks (Ellis, 2004; Ellis, Young, & Anderson, 1988; Lindell, Nicholls, & Castles, 2002; see also Lavidor & Bailey, 2005). In contrast, evidence suggests that parallel letter access does not operate in vertical word recognition as used by Boles et al. (Bub & Lewine, 1988; Ellis, 2004; Young & Ellis, 1985). What this could mean is that the positive asymmetry-performance correlations observed by Chiarello et al. may not reflect a common basis in a left hemisphere visual lexical process.
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These experiments have been supported by the SSRC (Grant HR 6876) and by Lancaster University's Research Grant Fund.