Naming reaction times to tachistoscopically presented pictures: some evidence of right hemisphere encoding.
The present study measured naming reaction times by normal subjects to unilaterally presented picture stimuli. Significant differences in picture-naming reaction time did not exist between left and right visual-field stimulations. The right hemisphere in the intact brain is capable of generating a verbal label for pictured stimuli. A psychological model suggests that a possible processing synergy between the two hemispheres may be tied to spatial processing and elementary linguistics.
D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014705:Verbal Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D014794:Visual Fields; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology