Eviatar Z
University of Haifa, Israel.
Brain Cogn. 1995 Nov;29(2):137-50. doi: 10.1006/brcg.1995.1273.
The effects of the scan for the first element in reading (leftmost in English, rightmost in Hebrew) on the ability of subjects to ignore irrelevant stimuli in one visual field more than in the other were investigated. The hypothesis tested was that English readers would have a harder time ignoring irrelevant stimuli in the left visual field than in the right visual field, with the opposite pattern predicted for readers of Hebrew. The paradigm employed by Banich (Banich & Belger, 1990) was used with two letter matching tasks. The results showed that when an irrelevant letter was present, English readers responded more slowly in the right than in the left visual field, and Hebrew readers showed the opposite pattern (Experiment 1). This interaction did not occur when the irrelevant letter was deleted (Experiment 2). These findings are discussed in terms of their relation to eye movements and covert attention and to the use of bilateral displays in neuropsychological experiments.
研究了阅读时对首个元素的扫描（英文中最左边的元素，希伯来文中最右边的元素）对受试者忽略一个视野中无关刺激的能力的影响，相较于另一个视野。所检验的假设是，英文读者在忽略左视野中的无关刺激时会比在右视野中更困难，而希伯来文读者则预计会呈现相反的模式。采用了巴尼奇（巴尼奇和贝尔热，1990年）所使用的范式，进行两项字母匹配任务。结果显示，当存在无关字母时，英文读者在右视野中的反应比在左视野中更慢，而希伯来文读者则呈现相反的模式（实验1）。当删除无关字母时，这种交互作用并未出现（实验2）。根据这些发现与眼动和隐蔽注意的关系以及在神经心理学实验中双侧显示的使用情况进行了讨论。
