The importance of interhemispheric transfer for foveal vision: A factor that has been overlooked in theories of visual word recognition and object perception  

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Brysbaert, Marc

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 88 no. 3 (2004), page 259-267.
Topik: Interhemispheric transfer; Macular sparing; Visual word recognition; Foveal split; Symmetry detection; oculomotor control
Fulltext: 88_03_Brysbaert.pdf (154.75KB)

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In this special issue of Brain and Language, we examine what implications the division between the left and the right brain half has for the recognition of words presented in the center of the visual field. The different articles are a first indication that taking into account the split between the left and the right cerebral hemisphere need not be an inescapable nuisance in models of visual word recognition but may in fact form the clue to the solution of a longstanding problem within this literature. Also, the fact that interhemispheric transfer has implications for foveal word recognition should interest laterality researchers, as it makes their findings more central to normal reading. In this introductory article, I first present a rough picture of the current (lack of) evidence for a bilateral representation of the foveal and the absence of a callosal delay. I then briefly discuss the suggestions made by the different authors on how to integrate the foveal split within current models of visual word recognition.

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