Word length effects in Hebrew

Michal Lavidor; Carol Whitney

doi:10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.01.002

Word length effects in Hebrew

Michal Lavidor
, Carol Whitney

University of Hull
University of Maryland, College Park

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Abstract

Numerous lateralization studies have reported that word length has a stronger effect in the left visual field (LVF) than in the right visual field (RVF) for right-handed people due to hemispheric asymmetry for language processing. Alternatively, early perceptual learning theory argued that the length effects might depend on the frequency of having read words at various lengths displayed at different retinal locations. The two alternatives were tested with right-handers participants who were native speakers of Hebrew which is read from right to left, that is Hebrew readers have a different perceptual experience than English readers. We found the predicted interaction between word length and hemifield; however, longer latencies to longer letter strings were found at both visual fields. We argue that these results are best accounted by the SERIOL model of letter-position encoding [C. Whitney, M. Lavidor, Why word length only matters in the left visual field. Neuropsychologia 42 (2004) 1680-1688].

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	127-132
Number of pages	6
Journal	Cognitive Brain Research
Volume	24
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.01.002
State	Published - Jun 2005
Externally published	Yes

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Funding Information:
We would like to thank M. Ahissar for letting us use her laboratory to collect data. We are grateful to the BBSRC, the European Commission, the Royal Society and the Wellcome Trust.

Funding

We would like to thank M. Ahissar for letting us use her laboratory to collect data. We are grateful to the BBSRC, the European Commission, the Royal Society and the Wellcome Trust.

Funders
Wellcome Trust
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Royal Society
European Commission

Keywords

Nasotemporal overlap
Perceptual learning
Reading direction
Split fovea
Visual word recognition
Word length

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