Word recognition as a function of retinal locus.

Mishkin, Mortimer; Forgays, Donald G.

doi:10.1037/h0061361

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“…However, this difference was considerably weaker than in Experiment 1, where stimuli were presented horizontally (cf. Barton et al, 1965;Howell & Bryden, 1987;Lavidor et al, 2001;Mishkin & Forgays, 1952).…”

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Dissociating Prelexical and Postlexical Processing of Affective Information in the Two Hemispheres: Effects of the Stimulus Presentation Format

2002

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Using a lexical decision task, the authors investigated whether brain asymmetries in the detection of emotionally negative semantic associations arise only at a perceptually discriminative stage at which lexical analysis is accurate or can already be found at crude and incomplete levels of perceptual representation at which word-nonword discrimination is based solely on guessing. Emotionally negative and neutral items were presented near perceptual threshold in the left and right visual hemifields. Word-nonword discrimination performance as well as the bias to classify a stimulus as a ''word'' (whether or not it actually is a word) were assessed for a normal, horizontal stimulus presentation format (Experiment 1) and for an unusual, vertical presentation format (Experiment 2). Results show that while the two hemispheres are equally able to detect affective semantic associations at a prelexical processing stage (both experiments), the right hemisphere is superior at a postlexical, perceptually discriminative stage (Experiment 2). Moreover, the findings suggest that only an unusual, nonoverlearned stimulus presentation format allows adequate assessment of the right hemisphere's lexical-semantic skills. © 2002 Elsevier Science (USA)

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Dissociating Prelexical and Postlexical Processing of Affective Information in the Two Hemispheres: Effects of the Stimulus Presentation Format

2002

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“…When scanning biases are eliminated by presenting words vertically, both English and Hebrew stimuli should produce a RVF superiority. Mishkin and Forgays (1952) presented native English speakers who had some knowledge of Yiddish with unilateral, horizontally printed English and Yiddish words. The Yiddish words were written in the left-going Hebrew alphabet.…”

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Neuropsychological approaches to bilingualism: A critical review.

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1980

Canadian Journal of Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologi

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Clinical and experimental studies which have examined the neuropsychological bases of language processing in bilinguals are reviewed and evaluated. Evidence from case studies of polyglot aphasics suggests that the neuropsychological organization of their languages is the same for most bilinguals but that cases of dissociation do occur. Two main factors -language specific and language acquisitional -which might account for dissociation are defined and empirical evidence relevant to each is considered. It is argued that while clinical case studies of bilinguals suffering language disruption following brain damage have been significant in isolating these factors, they have failed to establish their explanatory power, due in part to inadequate data bases and in part to weak hypothesis-testing procedures.

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“…language material, rotated figures, faces), the advantage of one over the other hemisphere can be assessed. Most reliable, for instance, are findings on the left hemisphere's advantage for language (Hugdahl, 2000); performance (accuracy, response latencies) is commonly superior for words presented to the RVF / right ear than to the LVF / left ear (Hugdahl, 2011;Kimura, 1961;Michael, 2009;Mishkin & Forgays, 1952). Another common hemispheric asymmetry task taps into the right hemisphere's advantage for visual face processing, i.e.…”

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“…Important to the present study, performance in both tasks has been assessed in an independent sample with results from the two tasks complementing each other (Herzig, Tracy, Munafò, & Mohr, 2010). One task assessed the left hemisphere's advantage for language using a lateralized lexical decision task (see also Dutta & Mandal, 2002;Mishkin & Forgays, 1952) and the other task assessed the right hemisphere's advantage for visual face processing by assessing sex decisions for chimeric faces (see also Butler & Harvey, 2006;Dutta & Mandal, 2002). In the lateralized lexical decision task, letter strings are shortly presented to the LVF and RVF.…”

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