title: Semantics at a glance: is the right hemisphere special?
abstract: It is well documented that the left hemisphere is specialized for the processing of alphabetic scripts. However, there have also been repeated suggestions that the right hemisphere is particularly proficient at reading logographs, despite scant empirical support for this proposition. In the present experiment subjects made an odd/even judgement to a single lateralized logograph (an Arabic numeral). The data suggest that the left and right hemispheres are equally efficient at extracting meaning from at least some simple, highly familiar logographs.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, University of Waterloo, Ontario.
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authors.lastname: Bourassa
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authors.lastname: Besner
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual