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  • Title: A critical boundary to the left-hemisphere advantage in visual-word processing.
    Author: Deason RG, Marsolek CJ.
    Journal: Brain Lang; 2005 Mar; 92(3):251-61. PubMed ID: 15721958.
    Abstract:
    Two experiments explored boundary conditions for the ubiquitous left-hemisphere advantage in visual-word recognition. Subjects perceptually identified words presented directly to the left or right hemisphere. Strong left-hemisphere advantages were observed for UPPERCASE and lowercase words. However, only a weak effect was observed for AlTeRnAtInG-cAsE words, and a numerical reversal of the typical left-hemisphere advantage was observed for words in a visual prototype font (a very unfamiliar word format). Results support the theory that dissociable abstract and specific neural subsystems underlie visual-form recognition and fail to support the theory that a visual lexicon operates in the left hemisphere.
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