Superiority of the left cerebral hemisphere in word recognition with nonverbal central fixation.
The right visual-field advantage for bilateral presentation put forward by McKeever and Huling was investigated. The central-fixation task was varied so that in one condition this task was nonverbal. Results gave some support for scanning-type explanations in this paradigm but over-all favoured Kinsbourne's activation-and-priming account.
D001288:Attention; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D011932:Reading