Visual laterality effects: reexamination.
Subjects were asked to indicate, by a simple motor response, the presence or absence of a word (signal) in unilaterally presented five-letter words and nonwords (noise). Both vertical and horizontal orientation of stimuli were employed. Detection accuracy (d') did not differ between visual hemifields and was greater for horizontal than for vertical orientation. Decision making was more conservative for left-hemifield presentation and more conservative for vertical orientation. Models for perceptual asymmetry based on structural differences between cerebral hemispheres are weakened by the results.
D000328:Adult; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009949:Orientation; D011932:Reading; D014796:Visual Perception