Effects of form familiarity on perception of words, pseudowords, and nonwords in the two cerebral hemispheres

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 537-548

  Jordan, Timothy R ^a   Redwood, Michelle ^a   Patching, Geoffrey R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TELENCEPHALON; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0038743238     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892903321662921     Document Type: Article

References (81)

1. Adams, M. J. (1979). Models of word recognition. Cognitive Psychology, 11, 133-176.
2. Allen, P. A., & Emerson, P. L. (1991). Holism revisited: Evidence for parallel independent word-level and letter-level processors during word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 17, 489-511.
3. Annett, M. (1967). The binomial distribution of right, mixed and left handed. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 19, 327-333.
4. Anstis, S. M. (1974). A chart demonstrating variations in acuity with retinal position. Vision Research, 14, 589-592.
5. Babkoff, H., Faust, M., & Lavidor, M. (1997). Lexical decision, visual hemifield and angle of orientation. Neuropsychologia, 35, 487-495.
6. Balota, D. A., & Chumbley, J. I. (1984). Are lexical decisions a good measure of lexical access? The role of word frequency in the neglected decision stage. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 10, 340-357.
7. Balota, D. A., & Chumbley, J. I. (1985). The locus of word-frequency effects in the pronunciation task: Lexical access and/or production? Journal of Memory and Language, 24, 89-106.
8. Besner, D. (1983). Basic decoding components in reading: Two dissociable feature extraction processes. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 37, 429-438.
9. Besner, D., & Johnston, J. C. (1989). Reading and the mental lexicon: On the uptake of visual information. In W. Marslen-Wilson (Ed.), Lexical representation and process (pp. 291-316). Cambridge: MIT Press.
10. Bjork, E. L., & Estes, W. K. (1973). Letter identification in relation to linguistic context and masking conditions. Memory and Cognition, 1, 217-223.
11. Bradshaw, J. L., Bradley, D., Gates, A., & Patterson, K. (1977). Serial parallel, or holistic identification of single words in the two visual fields. Perception and Psychophysics, 21, 431-438.
12. Bradshaw, J. L., & Nettleton, N. C. (1983). Human cerebral asymmetry. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
13. Bruyer, R., & Janlin, D. (1989). Lateral differences in lexical access: Word length vs. stimulus length. Brain and Language, 37, 258-265.
14. Bub, D. N., & Lewine, J. (1988). Different modes of word recognition in the left and right visual fields. Brain and Language, 33, 161-188.
15. Burgund, E. D., & Marsolek, C. J. (1997). Letter-case specific priming in the right cerebral hemisphere with a form-specific perceptual identification task. Brain and Cognition, 35, 239-258.
16. Carr, T. H., & Pollatsek, A. (1985). Recognising printed words: A look at current models. In D. Besner, T. G. Waller, & G. E. MacKinnon (Eds.), Reading research: Advances in theory and practice (vol. 5, pp. 1-82). San Diego: Academic Press.
17. Carroll, J. B., Davies, P., & Richman, B. (1971). The American heritage word frequency book. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin.
18. Chiarello, C. (1988). Lateralization of lexical processes in the normal human brain: A review of visual half field research. In H. A. Whitaker (Ed.), Contemporary reviews in neuropsychology (pp. 36-76). New York: Springer-Verlag.
19. Corballis, P. M., Inati, S., Funnell, M. G., Grafton, S. T., & Gazzaniga, M. S. (2001). MRI assessment of spared fibers following callosotomy: A second look. Neurology, 57, 1345-1346.
20. Day, J. (1977). Right hemisphere language processing in normal right handers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 19, 549-563.
21. Day, J. (1979). Visual half-field word recognition as a function of syntactic class and imageability. Neuropsychologia, 17, 515-519.
22. Ellis, A. W., Young, A. W., & Anderson, C. (1988). Modes of word recognition in the left and right cerebral hemispheres. Brain and Language, 35, 254-273.
23. Findlay, J. M., & Kapoula, Z. (1992). Scrutinization, spatial attention, and the spatial programming of saccadic eye movements. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 45, 633-647.
24. Fiset, S., & Arguin, M. (1999). Case alternation and orthographic neighborhood size effects in the left and right cerebral hemispheres. Brain and Cognition, 40, 116-118.
25. Francis, W. N., & Kucera, H. (1982). Frequency analysis of English usage: Lexicon and grammar. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
26. Funnell, M. G., Corballis, P. M., & Gazzaniga, M. S. (2000). Insights into the functional specificity of the human corpus callosum. Brain, 123, 920-926.
27. Gazzaniga, M. S. (2000). Cerebral specialization and interhemispheric communication: Does the corpus callosum enable the human condition? Brain, 123, 1293-1326.
28. Grainger, J., & Jacobs, A. M. (1994). A dual read-out model of word context effects in letter perception: Further investigations of the word superiority effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 20, 1158-1176.
29. Grainger, J., & Jacobs, A. M. (1996). Orthographic processing in visual word recognition: A multiple read-out model. Psychological Review, 103, 518-565.
30. Hagenzieker, M. P., & Van der Heijden, A. H. C. (1990). Time courses in visual information processing: Some theoretical considerations. Psychological Research, 52, 5-12.
31. Hilz, R. L., & Cavonius, C. R. (1974). Functional organization of the peripheral retina: Sensitivity to periodic stimuli. Vision Research, 14, 1333-1337.
32. Howell, J. R., & Bryden, M. P. (1987). The effects of word orientation and imageability on visual-half-field presentations with a lexical decision task. Neuropsychologia, 25, 527-538.
33. Jacobs, A. M., & Grainger, J. (1994). Models of visual word recognition: Sampling the state of the art. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 20, 1311-1334.
34. Johnston, J. C. (1978). A test of the sophisticated guessing theory of word perception. Cognitive Psychology, 10, 123-153.
35. Johnston, J. C., & McClelland, J. L. (1980). Experimental tests of a hierarchical model of word recognition. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 19, 503-524.
36. Jones, B., & Santi, A. (1978). Lateral asymmetries in visual perception with and without eye movements. Cortex, 14, 164-168.
37. Jordan, T. R. (1990). Presenting words without interior letters: Superiority over single letters and the influence of postmask boundaries. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 16, 893-909.
38. Jordan, T. R. (1995). Perceiving exterior letters of words: Differential influences of letter-fragment and non-letter fragment masks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 21, 512-530.
39. Jordan, T. R., & Martin, C. (1987). The importance of visual angle in word recognition: A "shrinking screen" modification for visual displays. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 19, 307-310.
40. Jordan, T. R., & Monteiro, A. (in press). Generating anagrams from multiple core strings employing user-defined vocabularies and orthographic parameters. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers.
41. Jordan, T. R., & Patching, G. R. (in press). Perceptual interactions between bilaterally presented words: What you get is often not what you see. Neuropsychology.
42. Jordan, T. R., Patching, G. R., & Milner, A. D. (1998). Central fixations are inadequately controlled by instructions alone: Implications for studying cerebral asymmetry. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 51A, 371-391.
43. Jordan, T. R., Patching, G. R., & Milner, A. D. (2000). Lateralized word recognition: Assessing the role of hemispheric specialization, modes of lexical access, and perceptual asymmetry. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26, 1192-1208.
44. Jordan, T. R., Patching, G., & Thomas, S. M. (2003a). Assessing the role of hemispheric specialization, serial-position processing and retinal eccentricity in lateralized word perception. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 20, 49-71.
45. Jordan, T. R., Patching, G., & Thomas, S. M. (2003b). Asymmetries and eccentricities in studies of lateralized word recognition: A response to Nazir. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 20, 81-89.
46. Jordan, T. R., & Thomas, S. M. (2002). In search of perceptual influences of sentence context on word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28, 34-45.
47. Knecht, S., Deppe, M., Dräger, B., Bobe, L., Lohmann, H., Ringlestein, E. B., & Henningsen, H. (2000). Language lateralization in healthy right-handers. Brain, 123, 74-81.
48. Koivisto, M. (1995). On functional brain asymmetries in perceptual priming. Brain and Cognition, 29, 36-53.
49. Kroll, N. E. A., Rocha, D. A., Yonelinas, A. P., & Baynes, K. (2001). Form specific visual priming in the left and right hemispheres. Brain and Cognition, 47, 564-569.
50. Lambert, A. J., & Beaumont, J. C. (1983). Imageability does not interact with visual field in lateral word recognition with oral report. Brain and Language, 20, 115-142.
51. Lavidor, M., Babkoff, H., & Faust, M. (2001). Analysis of standard and non-standard visual word format in the two hemispheres. Neuropsychologia, 39, 430-439.
52. Lavidor, M., & Ellis, A. W. (2001). Mixed-case effects in lateralized word recognition. Brain and Cognition, 46, 192-195.
53. Loftus, G. R. (1978). On interpretation of interactions. Memory and Cognition, 6, 312-319.
54. Marsolek, C. J. (1995). Abstract visual-form representations in the left cerebral hemisphere. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 21, 375-386.
55. Marsolek, C. J., & Hudson, T. E. (1999). Task and stimulus demands influence letter-case-specific priming in the right cerebral hemisphere. Laterality, 4, 127-147.
56. Marsolek, C. J., Kosslyn, S. M., & Squire, L. R. (1992). Form-specific visual priming in the right cerebral hemisphere. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 492-508.
57. Marsolek, C. J., Schacter, D. L., & Nicholas, C. D. (1996). Form-specific visual priming for new associations in the right cerebral hemisphere. Memory and Cognition, 24, 539-556.
58. Mayall, K., & Humphreys, G. W. (1996). A connectionist model of alexia: Covert recognition and case mixing effects. British Journal of Psychology, 87, 355-402.
59. Mayall, K, Humphreys, G. W., & Olson, A. (1997). Disruption to word or letter processing? The origins of case-mixing effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 23, 1275-1286.
60. Mayzner, M. S., & Tresselt, M. E. (1965). Tables of single-letter and digram frequency counts for various word-length and letter-position combinations. Psychonomic Monograph, 1 (Suppl.), 13-32.
61. McClelland, J. L. (1976). Preliminary letter identification in the perception of words and nonwords. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2, 80-91.
62. McClelland, J. L., & Rumelhart, D. E. (1981). An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception: Pt 1. An account of basic findings. Psychological Review, 88, 375-407.
63. McClelland, J. L., & Rumelhart, D. E. (1988). Explorations in parallel distributed processing. Cambridge: MIT Press.
64. McKeever, W., & Gill, K. M. (1972). Visual half-field differences in the recognition of bilaterally presented single letters and vertically spelled words. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 34, 815-818.
65. Østerberg, G. A. (1935). Topography of layer rods and cones in the human retina. Acta Ophthalmology, 6 (Suppl.), 1-102.
66. Paap, K. R., Newsome, S. L., & Noel, R. W. (1984). Word shape's in poor shape for the race to the lexicon. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 10, 413-428.
67. Patching, G. R., & Jordan, T. R. (1998). Increasing the benefits of eye-tracking devices in divided visual field studies of cerebral asymmetry. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 30, 643-650.
68. Petersen, S. E., Fox, P. T., Snyder, A. Z., & Raichle, M. E. (1990). Activation of extrastriate areas and frontal cortical areas by visual words and word like stimuli. Science, 249, 1041-1044.
69. Posner, M. I., Abdullaev, Y. G., McCandliss, B. D., & Sereno, S. C. (1999). Anatomy, circuitry, and plasticity of word reading. In J. Everatt (Ed.), Reading and dyslexia: Visual and attentional processes (pp. 137-162). London: Routledge.
70. Reicher, G. M. (1969). Perceptual recognition as a function of meaningfulness of stimulus material. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 28, 115-121.
71. Reuter-Lorenz, P. A., & Baynes, K. (1992). Modes of lexical access in the callosotomized brain. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 4, 155-164.
72. Risse, G. L., Gates, J., Lund, G., Maxwell, R., & Rubens, A. (1989). Interhemispheric transfer in patients with incomplete section of the corpus callosum: Anatomic verification with magnetic resonance imaging. Archives of Neurology, 46, 437-443.
73. Roediger, H. L., III., & Blaxton, T. A. (1987). Effects of varying modality, surface features, and retention interval on priming in word-fragment completion. Memory and Cognition, 15, 379-388.
74. Rumelhart, D. E., & Siple, P. (1974). Process of recognizing tachistoscopically presented words. Psychological Review, 81, 99-118.
75. Schacter, D. L. (1990). Perceptual representation systems and implicit memory: Toward a resolution of the multiple memory system debate. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 608, 543-571.
76. Sugishita, M., Hamilton, C. R., Sakuma, I., & Hemmi, I. (1994). Hemispheric representation of the central retina of commissurotomized subjects. Neuropsychologia, 32, 399-415.
77. Thompson, M. C., & Massaro, D. W. (1973). Visual information and redundancy in reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 98, 49-54.
78. Tulving, E., & Schacter, D. L. (1990). Priming and human memory systems. Science, 247, 301-305.
79. Young, A. W., & Ellis, A. W. (1985). Different methods of lexical access for words presented in the left and right visual hemifields. Brain and Language, 24, 326-358.
80. Young, A. W., Ellis, A. W., & Bion, P. J. (1984). Letter superiority for pronounceable nonwords, but not for unpronounceable letter strings. Brain and Language, 22, 14-25.
81. Wheeler, D. D. (1970). Processes in word recognition. Cognitive Psychology, 1, 59-85.