Hines D, Sawyer P K, Dura J, Gilchrist J, Czerwinski M
Neuropsychologia. 1984;22(4):427-33. doi: 10.1016/0028-3932(84)90037-x.
When two pictures of common objects were presented sequentially, the second was named more quickly if both were members of the same semantic category. This semantic priming effect occurred only when both pictures went directly to the left hemisphere. If the target or prime stimulus was presented to the left visual field--right hemisphere, no priming effect was observed. These results suggest that semantic category information is activated and used by the left hemisphere of the brain.
当依次呈现两张普通物体的图片时，如果两者属于同一语义类别，那么对第二张图片的命名会更快。这种语义启动效应仅在两张图片都直接进入左半球时才会出现。如果目标刺激或启动刺激呈现给左视野——右半球，则不会观察到启动效应。这些结果表明，语义类别信息由大脑左半球激活并使用。
