Abstract
Prior studies (Faust, 1998) indicate that the left (LH) and right (RH) hemispheres are differentially sensitive to lexical- and sentence-level meaning constraints: lexical priming is augmented by sentence-level facilitation for words presented to the right visual field (RVF)/LH, but not the left visual field (LVF)/RH. This implies that the RH alone should obtain priming from anomalous sentences that contain a word strongly associated to the target. This was tested by lateralizing the sentence-final target word following three types of sentences: neutral, anomalous, or normal. Half of the nonneutral sentences included an associated word, and half included an unrelated control wood. Priming was obtained bilaterally, but was differentially affected in each VF depending on sentence-level congruity.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 75-79 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Brain and Cognition |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| State | Published - Jun 1999 |