Lexical decision, visual hemifield and angle of orientation

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 487-495

  Babkoff, Harvey ^a   Faust, Miriam ^a   Lavidor, Michal ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Lexical decision; Orientation angles; Vertical vs horizontal; Visual hemifields

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0030903240     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(96)00072-3     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Babkoff, H. and Ben-Uriah, Y. Lexical decision time as a function of visual field and stimulus probability. Cortex 19, 13-30, 1983.
2. Babkoff, H. and Faust, M. Lexical decision and visual hemifields: An examination of the RT-accuracy relationship. Neuropsychologia 26, 711-726, 1988.
3. Balgur, R. A List of Basic Words for School. Otsar Hamoreh, Ramat-Gan, 1974.
4. Bub, D. N. and Lewine, J. Different modes of word recognition in the left and right visual fields. Brain and Language 33, 161-188, 1988.
5. Chiarello, C., Dronkers, N. F. and Hardyck, C. Choosing sides: On the variability of language lateralization in normal subjects. Neuropsychologia 22, 363-374, 1984.
6. Chiarello, C. Lateralization of lexical processes in the normal brain: A review of visual half-field research. In Contemporary Reviews in Neuropsychology, H. A. Whitaker (Editor). Springer-Verlag, New York, 1988.
7. Chiarello, C. Interpretation of word meanings by the cerebral hemispheres: One is not enough. In The Psychology of Word Meanings, P. J. Schwanenflugel (Editor). Lawrence Erlbaum, New Jersey, 1991.
8. Chiarello, C., Maxfield, L., Richards, L. and Kahan, T. Activation of lexical codes for simultaneously presented words: Modulation by attention and pathway strength. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, in press.
9. Day, J. Right hemisphere language processing in normal right-handers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 3, 518-528, 1977.
10. Day, J. Visual half-field word recognition as a function of syntactic class and imageability. Neuropsychologia 17, 515-519, 1979.
11. Ellis, A. W., Young, A. W. and Anderson, C. Models of word recognition in the left and right cerebral hemispheres. Brain and Language 35, 254-273, 1988.
12. Eviatar, Z. and Zaidel, E. The effect of word length and emotionality on hemispheric contribution to lexical decision. Neuropsychologia 29, 415-428, 1991.
13. Faust, M., Kravetz, S. and Babkoff, H. Hemisphericity and top-down processing of language. Brain and Language 44, 1-18, 1993.
14. Faust, M., Kravetz, S. and Babkoff, H. Hemispheric specialization or reading habits: Evidence from lexical decision research with Hebrew words and Sentences. Brain and Language 44, 254-263, 1993.
15. Faust, M. and Babkoff, H. Script as a priming stimulus for lexical decisions with visual hemifield stimulation. Brain and Language, in press.
16. Heister, G. Sex differences and cognitive/motor interference with visual half-field stimulation. Neuropsychologia 22, 205-214, 1984.
17. Hellige, J. B. Hemispheric asymmetry. Annual Review of Psychology 41, 55-80, 1990.
18. Hellige, J. B. Effect of skill on visual laterality: Now you see it - now you don't. Brain and Cognition 74, 277-283, 1994.
19. Hellige, J. B. and Sergent, J. Role of task factors in visual field asymmetries. Brain and Cognition 5, 369-376, 1986.
20. Hellige, J. B., Cowin, E. L., Eng, T. and Sergent, J. Perceptual reference frames and visual field asymmetry for verbal processing. Neuropsychologia 29, 929-939, 1991.
21. Howell, J. R. and Bryden, M. P. The effects of word orientation and imageability on visual half-field presentations with a lexical decision task. Neuropsychologia 25, 527-538, 1987.
22. Jonsson, J. E. and Hellige, J. B. Lateralized effects of blurring: A test of the visual spatial frequency model of cerebral hemisphere asymmetry. Neuropsychologia 24, 351-362, 1986.
23. Kirsner, K. and Schwartz, S. Words and Hemifields: Do the hemispheres enjoy equal opportunity? Brain and Cognition 5, 354-361, 1986.
24. Koriat, A. and Norman, J. Reading rotated words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 11, 490-508, 1985.
25. Koriat, A. and Norman, J. Why is word recognition impaired by disorientation while the identification of single letters is not? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 15, 153-163, 1989.
26. Lambert, A. J. and Beaumont, J. G. Imageability does not interact with visual field in lateral word recognition with oral report. Brain and Language 20, 115-142, 1983.
27. Leiber, L. Lexical decisions in the right and left cerebral hemispheres. Brain and Language 3, 443-450, 1976.
28. Mackavey, W., Curcio, F. and Rosen, J. Tachistoscopic word recognition performance under conditions of simultaneous bilateral presentation. Neuropsychologia 13, 27-33, 1975.
29. McKeever, W. F. Lateral word recognition: Effects of unilateral and bilateral presentation, asynchrony of bilateral presentation, and forced order of report. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 23, 410-416, 1971.
30. McKeever, W. F. and Gill, K. M. Visual half-field differences in the recognition of bilaterally presented single letters and vertically spelled words. Perceptual and Motor Skills 34, 815-818, 1972.
31. Shanon, B. Lateralization effects in response to words and nonwords. Cortex 15, 541-549, 1979.
32. Shanon, B. Lateralization effects in lexical decision tasks. Brain and Language 8, 380-398, 1979.
33. Sergent, J. The role of the input and visual hemispheric asymmetries. Psychological Bulletin 93, 481-514, 1983.
34. Springer, S. and Deutsch, G. Left Brain, Right Brain. W. H. Freeman, San Francisco, 1993.
35. Young, A. W. and Ellis, A. W. Different methods of lexical access for words presented in the left and right visual hemifields. Brain and Language 24, 326-358, 1985.