Deason Rebecca G, Marsolek Chad J
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Brain Lang. 2005 Mar;92(3):251-61. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2004.06.105.
Two experiments explored boundary conditions for the ubiquitous left-hemisphere advantage in visual-word recognition. Subjects perceptually identified words presented directly to the left or right hemisphere. Strong left-hemisphere advantages were observed for UPPERCASE and lowercase words. However, only a weak effect was observed for AlTeRnAtInG-cAsE words, and a numerical reversal of the typical left-hemisphere advantage was observed for words in a visual prototype font (a very unfamiliar word format). Results support the theory that dissociable abstract and specific neural subsystems underlie visual-form recognition and fail to support the theory that a visual lexicon operates in the left hemisphere.
两项实验探究了视觉单词识别中普遍存在的左半球优势的边界条件。受试者通过感知识别直接呈现给左半球或右半球的单词。对于大写和小写单词,观察到了强烈的左半球优势。然而,对于大小写交替的单词,仅观察到微弱的效应,而对于视觉原型字体(一种非常不熟悉的单词格式)中的单词,观察到了典型左半球优势的数值反转。结果支持了这样一种理论,即可分离的抽象和特定神经子系统是视觉形式识别的基础,并且不支持视觉词库在左半球运作的理论。