Brysbaert Marc
Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK.
Brain Lang. 2004 Mar;88(3):259-67. doi: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00279-7.
In this special issue of Brain and Language, we examine what implications the division between the left and the right brain half has for the recognition of words presented in the center of the visual field. The different articles are a first indication that taking into account the split between the left and the right cerebral hemisphere need not be an inescapable nuisance in models of visual word recognition but may in fact form the clue to the solution of a longstanding problem within this literature. Also, the fact that interhemispheric transfer has implications for foveal word recognition should interest laterality researchers, as it makes their findings more central to normal reading. In this introductory article, I first present a rough picture of the current (lack of) evidence for a bilateral representation of the fovea and the absence of a callosal delay. I then briefly discuss the suggestions made by the different authors on how to integrate the foveal split within current models of visual word recognition.
在《大脑与语言》的这一特刊中，我们探讨了大脑左右半球的划分对于识别呈现于视野中央的单词有何影响。不同的文章首次表明，在视觉单词识别模型中，考虑大脑左右半球的划分不一定是个无法避免的麻烦事，实际上它可能是解决该领域一个长期存在问题的线索。此外，半球间传递对中央凹单词识别有影响这一事实，应该会引起偏侧性研究人员的兴趣，因为这使得他们的研究结果对于正常阅读更为关键。在这篇引言文章中，我首先大致介绍一下目前关于中央凹双侧表征以及胼胝体延迟不存在的（缺乏）证据。然后，我将简要讨论不同作者就如何将中央凹划分整合到当前视觉单词识别模型中所提出的建议。
