title: Visual Field asymmetries for verbal and dot localization tasks in monolingual and bilingual subjects.
abstract: Visual Field asymmetries for verbal and dot localization tasks were examined in monolingual and bilingual subjects. Consistent right-visual-field advantages were found for verbal material in all groups, although bilingual subjects showed a reduced laterality for their second language in comparison with their native language. Monolingual subjects displayed left-visual-field advantages on the dot localization task, but no consistent asymmetries were shown by the bilingual subjects. The overall pattern of results is consistent with left-hemisphere involvement for the processing of verbal material, but the heterogeneity of performance on the dot localization task suggests that processing of such a task may be influenced by subjects' linguistic backgrounds.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011932:Reading; D013028:Space Perception