?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Hemispheric+independence+in+word+recognition%3A+evidence+from+unilateral+and+bilateral+presentations&rft.creator=Iacoboni%2C+M.&rft.creator=Zaidel%2C+E.&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Neuropsychology&rft.description=We+compared+behavioral+laterality+effect+in+a+lexical+decision+task+using+cued+unilateral+or+bilateral+presentations+of+different+stimuli+to+normal+subjects.+The+goals+were+to+determine+the+effects+of+lexical+variables+on+word+recognition+in+each+hemisphere+under+conditions+of+maximal+independence+of+information+processing+in+the+two+hemispheres+and+to+assess+the+degree+of+residual+interhemispheric+effects+that+can+still+exist+then.+Bilateral+presentations+increased+hemispheric+independence+in+word+recognition%2C+indexed+by+a+significant+interaction+of+response+hand+with+target+visual+field.+Bilateral+presentations+also+selectively+impaired+word+decisions%2C+suggesting+that+word+processing+benefits+from+interhemispheric+interaction%2C+whereas+nonword+processing+is+done+independently+in+each+hemisphere.+Indeed%2C+there+was+a+significant+congruity+effect+for+word+targets+only%2C+whereby+the+wordness+of+the+unattended+stimulus+affected+the+speed+of+processing+of+attended+word+targets.+Word+frequency+and+regularity+affected+both+hemispheres+equally%2C+arguing+against+the+hemispheric+interpretation+of+the+dual+route+model+of+word+recognition.+Length+affected+the+processing+of+nonwords+more+than+words+and+in+the+LVF+more+than+in+the+RVF.+Taken+together%2C+the+data+support+the+conclusion+that+each+normal+hemisphere+can+control+word+recognition+independently+of+the+other.&rft.date=1996&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F687%2F1%2Fbrainlang.html&rft.identifier=++Iacoboni%2C+M.+and+Zaidel%2C+E.++(1996)+Hemispheric+independence+in+word+recognition%3A+evidence+from+unilateral+and+bilateral+presentations.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F687%2F