Bowers Jeffrey S, Turner Emma L
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, Clifton, Bristol, BS8-1TN, UK.
Brain Lang. 2005 Dec;95(3):414-22. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2005.03.004.
Two experiments assessed masked priming for words presented to the left and right visual fields in a lexical decision task. In both Experiments, the same magnitude and pattern of priming was obtained for visually similar (kiss-KISS) and dissimilar (read-READ) prime-target pairs. These findings provide no support for the hypothesis that word identification is mediated by separate and lateralized abstract and specific visual form systems. Strikingly, equivalent priming was observed when primes and targets were presented to the same or opposite visual fields, suggesting that priming occurs after visual information from the two hemispheres is integrated.
两项实验在词汇判断任务中评估了呈现给左、右视野的单词的掩蔽启动效应。在这两项实验中，对于视觉上相似（kiss-KISS）和不相似（read-READ）的启动刺激-目标刺激对，都获得了相同程度和模式的启动效应。这些发现不支持单词识别由独立且单侧化的抽象和特定视觉形式系统介导的假说。令人惊讶的是，当启动刺激和目标刺激呈现给相同或相反视野时，观察到了等效的启动效应，这表明启动效应发生在来自两个半球的视觉信息整合之后。
