Dissociated hemispheric superiorities for reading stenography vs print.
In two lateralized tachistoscopic lexical decision experiments at different exposure durations, we found for high-frequency function words written in stenography a shift from a RVF advantage at long exposures to a LVF advantage at short exposures, while for the same words written in print a strong RVF effect persisted. We suggest that a reduction of exposure duration, together with the strong visuo-spatial features in stenography, activate right-hemispheric word recognition. Stenography, a non-orthographic and syllabic-ideographic writing system, could be a model to investigate different hemispheric reading processes in Western subjects.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011932:Reading; D014956:Writing