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  • Title: Judgements about numerosity by a commissurotomized subject.
    Author: Corballis MC, Sergent J.
    Journal: Neuropsychologia; 1992 Oct; 30(10):865-76. PubMed ID: 1436434.
    Abstract:
    A commissurotomized subject, L.B., was shown asterisks flashed at random locations, up to four in each field, and attempted either to compare the numbers in the two fields or to report the total number. The main results were: (a) Report was more accurate with unilateral than with bilateral presentation, suggesting that the difficulty integrating across fields was partly attentional; (b) in integrating across fields, attention was focused on one field, with only crude 'one-or-many' information from the other; (c) in cross-field comparisons, the focus was on the LVF, but in reporting the number it was on the RVF when report was oral or right-handed, and on the LVF when report was left-handed; (d) cross-field comparisons were improved when the locations were mirrored across the midline.
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