Research article summary (published 30 Dec 2001):

Word length and orthographic neighborhood size effects in the left and right cerebral hemispheres.

Full Abstract

Previous studies have reported an interaction between visual field (VF) and word length such that word recognition is affected more by length in the left VF (LVF) than in the right VF (RVF). A reanalysis showed that the previously reported effects of length were confounded with orthographic neighborhood size (N). In three experiments we manipulated length and N in lateralized lexical decision tasks. Results showed that length and VF interacted even with N controlled (Experiment 1); that N affected responses to words in the LVF but not the RVF (Experiment 2); and that when length and N were combined, length only affected performance in the LVF for words with few neighbors.Copyright 2002 Elsevier Science (USA).

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Author information

Author/s: Lavidor, Michal (M); Ellis, Andrew W (AW);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, England, UK. M.Lavidor@psych.york.ac.uk

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Brain and language (Brain Lang), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Jan; vol 80 (issue 1) : pp 45-62

Dates: Created 2002/01/30; Completed 2002/05/21; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 11817889, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

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Adolescent Adult Brain - physiology Female Functional Laterality - physiology Humans Linguistics

Linguistics Male Reaction Time Size Perception Visual Fields - physiology Visual Perception - physiology Vocabulary

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